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by 1amzave 17y ago
I think one thing that ought to be dealt with first before any RISC-CISC debate is what exactly defines either one. Some attributes commonly identified (in my experience) with RISC machines include: - Fixed-width instructions (generally 32
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by 1amzave 17y ago
Generally true, though I think some of the proposed (future) SSE5 instructions may be three-operand -- or even four in the case of FMA ops (perhaps this is what you were subtly referring to by saying "yet"). Perhaps more importantly though,
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by 1amzave 17y ago
> All computer architecture PhDs I've spoken to have referred to the Itanium with an air of awe. Really? I've had pretty much exactly the opposite experience. In computer architecture circles I find it's actually more often referred
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by 1amzave 17y ago
> In fact, it’s now a universally accepted truth that RISC is better than CISC! > Is that actually true? I'd like to see some actual numbers comparing RISC vs. CISC performance/power consumption. While I realize you intended your
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by 1amzave 17y ago
I think it goes a bit beyond "keeping a close eye on"... Apple's employed Chris Lattner (the creator/primary author of LLVM) for a number of years now, and I think LLVM is widely regarded as being a pretty major part of their plans going fo
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by 1amzave 17y ago
Not to mention the "bugs" (at least the few I bothered to inspect) consist of: - missing close-quote - missing expression in return statement of non-void function - missing semicolon Seriously, who cares? If it doesn't even compile (first
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by 1amzave 17y ago
A few years ago I saw David Byrne do a great presentation entitled "I ♥ PowerPoint". I don't think his slides are available online (at least not that I can find), but one of the high points was when he borrowed some slides from this: htt
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by 1amzave 17y ago
I was semi-seriously considering placing an order when they first announced it, but feared pretty much exactly that -- sounds like my fears may not have been unreasonable. Hopefully you can get that dealt with.
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by 1amzave 17y ago
If by laptop you mean "non-netbook", then...not that I'm aware of. If you allow tablet/netbook sorts of things, there's the Touch Book, from the (in my opinion) goofily-named Always Innovating, which looks pretty neat to me: http://www.al
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by 1amzave 17y ago
How timely! Just last night I was frustrated by a stupid policy when changing my online banking password (my bank is now listed). I think his once-a-month policy could stand to be more aggressive, though.