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peterlaurens
19y ago
UltraSPARCs are rather specialised for general purpose processors - one could make the arguments that GPUs, which massively outperform x86 CPUs several times over in terms of FP performance, were faster even than SPARC, but it's very much a
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peterlaurens
19y ago
I don't think there is a hard and fast rule, but here is what appears to be many people's (i.e. not everyone's) interpretation: - Programmer: Primarily just writes code to accomplish the tasks that he is given. - Developer: Understands and