pranith

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   by pranith 4y ago

   Great investigative work! The stack structure you refer to here is called the Return Address Stack (RAS).
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   by pranith 5y ago

   Even cows are extremely intelligent and emotional animals. Did you stop eating them?
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   by pranith 5y ago

   Very well explained.. its a really interesting idea.
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   by pranith 6y ago

   Wishing him good luck and healthy life.
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   by pranith 6y ago

   Graviton2 is using Ares core IP from ARM.
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   by pranith 7y ago

   Looking forward to seeing a high performance dev-board from SiFive.
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   by pranith 7y ago

   True, but the design is licensed from ARM and tuned to AWS's requirements.
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   by pranith 7y ago

   If they are good enough for internal use, they should be good enough for public use. Not really sure what is stopping them from exposing it to the public... I am sure there is _some_ demand for it.
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   by pranith 7y ago

   I am sure the software is multi-arch ready but I wonder if they are evaluating ARM servers either for use internally or to launch in the cloud...
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    by pranith 7y ago

    I wonder when and how Azure and Google Cloud will compete with AWS in this market. They could buy ARM processors available in the market, but I doubt they will be able to get them as cheap as AWS who builds their own.
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    by pranith 7y ago

    Would you please tell what the specifications are and how much it cost you?
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    Linus Torvalds: Fix Linux sysconf performance problem (2011)(sourceware.org)

    2 points by pranith 7y ago|0 comments
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    by pranith 7y ago

    The long term extended support release might be a suitable option for you in that case... https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/enterprise/
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    by pranith 7y ago

    Ah, forgot Amazon. They are a sink for OSS. Apple, it appears, is much better than I knew.
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    by pranith 7y ago

    Microsoft has come a long way lately when it comes to open source. Apple seems to be the only major company that is still not an enthusiastic participant.
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    by pranith 9y ago

    For those having trouble accessing the page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170512030315/http://www.alex-i...
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    by pranith 9y ago

    > Properly coded applications will be using some form of sync primitives to shared data structures. So, when the emulator hits a LOCK xxx instruction This is not always true. See [1] for an example. Because of the semantics of the x86 me
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    by pranith 9y ago

    Since there are no publicly available details, I would guess this is solved in hardware. The Qualcomm processor can be made to support stronger memory model for translated instructions similar to how the Power processors support strong-acce
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    by pranith 9y ago

    Google is putting quite some effort to get Clang to build the linux kernel. Once it is at that stage, they can stop depending on gcc in AOSP. They already use clang for everything but the kernel.
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    by pranith 12y ago

    And the latest available version on the most recent ubuntu and debian releases is... 5.7.1 from 6 years ago!! https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574947 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu&#
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    by pranith 12y ago

    There were plans not to disable the on-chip GPU and use it as a power saving feature. When the gpu work load can be handled by the on-chip GPU, disabling the external GPU saves you quite a lot of energy.