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What you describe sounds counter-intuitive. And the paper you cite seems to suggest an ISA extension to increase the number architected (!) registers. That is something very differ…

Have they? Netflix, Spotify, Kindle, ...

I don't know. I use a lot of Swift and C++ and while both are OK languages there is an absurd amount of complexity in these languages that doesn't seem to serve any real purpose. J…

> Propane gas tanks became registered products I still remember the two gentlemen in their black, faux leather jackets who rang our doorbell and demanded to see our dinghy. (dinghi…

Yes, I think the conclusion was that it did improve performance on binaries that were not compiled with optimizations, but didn't generate enough gains on optimized binaries to set…

That they will invest 10$ in OpenAI for each W of NVIDIA chips that is deployed? EDIT: In steps of 1GW it seems.

Yes, gentrification is a thing around here too, but I also lived in the outskirts of the city and you don't need a car there either. They also have all the essentials. The fancy re…

It really depends on the city/quarter where you live. I live in the center of Barcelona and had no problems with two small kids at all. Supermarkets, real farmer's markets, hospita…

> They are the gatekeeper to one thing: their own app store. They also control the OS and don't allow side-loading or other app stores (without putting absurd obstacles in the way)…

Good call, thanks for clarifying!

I would assume that "lightweight" in this case means that they share a single Linux kernel. Or that there is an emulation layer that maps the Linux Kernel API to macOS. In any case…

This is not a good article and the content doesn't support the claim in the title. It talks about memory latency and how it negatively affects instruction level parallelism, but do…

Yes, in theory you can pause at any point, but in practice it is not that easy to stop. I remember not hearing the boarding call and losing a flight while reading La fiesta del chi…

More details here: https://archive.ph/vabvA (Spanish)

There is also the first object in space. But this was arguably no commercial launch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014

I don't have any numbers, but I think this is still pretty common. On iOS for example Alamofire which is a popular network stack, still offers this as a feature. I think the use ca…

IIRC it also introduced index based addressing. Before that, people just wrote self modifying code to index arrays...

Maybe some kind of snapshot feature, where you can just load an snapshot of the already initialized state?

If I understand correctly, the AI is only choosing the optimization passes and their relative order. Each individual optimization step would still be designed and verified manually…

Very nice! Thanks for sharing! Getting to the point where you can run other people’s code is a great achievement! I have one question: Did you really implement this in Python? Why …

MIPS for example has this. It has `addu` for normal integer addition that does not trap and `add` if you want to trap on overflows.

IIRC you don‘t have to do 16 trips in four months. If do fewer trips, you have to pay 10€ once (or 20€ for the mid range trips). That is still a considerable discount.

We do have these architectures already in the embedded space and as DSPs. I suppose, they would be interesting for supercomputers as well. But for general purpose CPUs they would b…

In the same section the part about the SiFive optimization is also misleading. The goal of the optimization is obviously to avoid interrupting the instruction fetch. But he makes i…