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Intel's Redwood Cove: Baby Steps Are Still Steps
- zdw 2y ago"AI has been very popular among people wishing they had seven fingers on each hand instead of five"
- bravetraveler 2y agoThink of how much more you could get done
- Rinzler89 2y agoI call it "the stranger".
- dylan604 2y agoI think another hand instead of extra fingers would be much more productive
- bravetraveler 2y agoTotally, I'm making a somewhat 'disposable'/weak joke It's a fun play on the idea of a productivity enhancer. AI - the extra fingers or hand - does well to spare me effort, I just think productivity may not be the right way to look at things
- dmichulke 2y ago"[I'd do it but] I only have 5 fingers"
- LeoPanthera 2y agoPeople downvoting you probably don't realise this is a direct quote from the article. Maybe if you had written some actual comment, too...
- zdw 2y agoSorry about no additional comment, I couldn't think of something clever that included an Inigo Montoya reference...
- adityaathalyo 2y ago> Inigo Montoya reference Huh? Who?
- selimthegrim 2y agoPrincess Bride character
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agowho wants revenge on a six-fingered man
- kstrauser 2y agoInconceivable. (But also, you must go watch “The Princess Bride” tonight to catch the million cultural references you’ve been missing.)
- roenxi 2y agoIt was a no-content throwaway comment in the article too; highlighting it on HN is pointless. I doubt the downvoters would care much whether it was in the article or not.
- kelnos 2y agoIt's the latter bit for me. Ok, so it's a quote from the article. So what? What's interesting about it? What's funny about it? Don't make me guess. Tell my why you thought it was worth your time copy-pasting it into the comment box. Foster some discussion!
- ezst 2y ago
- ForOldHack 2y agoBut most unfortunate for Numbers. We have 4 fingers, making binary capabilities, now if we had 60 fingers... then it would be a different story. With 5 fingers on each hand, and two hands, that is the product of two primes, and with 7 fingers on 3 hands, also the product of two primes... You have something to look forward to in Genetic Engineering 2077. Eight fingers on 4 hands? Personally, my fingers count only to 1023, and have for decades. The article points out specific use of specific techniques to probe cache and other efficiencies, which is valuable.
- tbalsam 2y ago"....and 17 other bus stop conversations you'd never expect to have."
- anthk 2y agoEmacs users and Lisp? For sure, since the ITS days.
- hedora 2y agoNewer models don’t have this issue. Now, everyone gets five fingers and a thumb, as requested.
- kristianp 2y agoI wondered if this was a saying translated from another language.
- bee_rider 2y agoOh dang, branch hints. I always thought they were so obvious, and never implemented, so they must be obviously bad. But, Intel is giving them a shot. Neat!
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoIIRC, SPARC also used them, which... probably suggests that it's not totally terrible.
- duskwuff 2y agoI believe PowerPC had them as well. No idea how effective they were.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI took computer architecture in the mid-late-90s and branch hints were talked about as a thing that was being done.
- bee_rider 2y agoYeah, in my class (a couple years ago, but not decades) they were covered as something that seemed like a neat idea, but then didn’t help much for actual programs. The general theme in that class was that everything cool added more complexity than the performance benefit could justify, and got in the way of making things wider. Same for branch delays slots.
- duskwuff 2y agoBranch delay slots were just a straight-up instance of exposing an ugly quirk of the pipeline to the programmer. They became a liability in later revisions of MIPS, as it no longer arose naturally from the architecture and had to be deliberately included.
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