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Why don't new Intel or AMD chips require painstaking reverse engineering with each release?
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
Why don't new Intel or AMD chips require painstaking reverse engineering with each release?
- kaba0 2y agoHistorically they do, and currently they don't because their biggest market is server machines where Linux is the de facto choice. It's a life or death question for them to properly support the Linux kernel.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoIn one search I'm able to pull up Pentium documentation from 1995 as well as recent documentation from 2023. Show me the equivalent Apple Silicon docs that a compiler engineer could use.