According to TLA, x86 compatibility is achieved through emulation. Emulating the x86 instruction set is a non-trivial exercise that almost invariably results in extremely disappointing performance. Why? The x86 instruction set is an accretion of the instruction sets of older Intel processors, beginning with the 8008. This yields a difficult (i.e., computationally expensive) instruction set to decode and execute. Over the years, Intel has implemented micro-architectures that address this problem through special purpose hardware. If you're so inclined, have a read here http://www.intel.com/content/w... for details. The takeaway is that simply emulating the x86 instruction set results in about a 100x slowdown for an equivalent clock rate. So, although this is an interesting technology demonstration, I seriously doubt it will prove useful outside of a small set of applications. It will certainly not be a satisfactory gaming platform.
Looks like it's time to put ad block back on for slashdot.
Why on earth would you have ever go to any website with ad-blocking disabled? I only trust people that I know personally. You know, real people, not Facebook friends, and certainly not a commercial interest like Slashdot.
A lot of companies are trying to connect with users for legitimate purposes. There's a lot of money to made and saved.
Quite right. That would be "Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top, and Spam."
Fine, you think you've got a cozy little electronic commons where everything will be unicorns and rainbows if we are all just willing to show our beautiful selves to one another. In the meantime, Facebook and its partners are making bank data mining your junk and marketing to you. And they say, "Thanks!"
The B-52 did not "[drop] the first hydrogen bomb in the Bikini Islands in 1956" as the summary states. The first hydrogen bomb was much too heavy to fly, resembling a locomotive in size and weight. "Ivy Mike" was the first hydrogen bomb tested, detonated by the United States at Enewetak Atoll on November 1, 1952. It weighed 80 tons and yielded about 10 megatons.
So more busted old shit is constantly created and ported to the current MS platform to become the new 'busted old shit' that people need to be able to run on new machines.
Interesting. This makes me think that Apple may have discovered the "secret sauce", albeit accidentally. With each processor transition, Apple has provided a compatibility window that slammed shut at a point in time not too far from the transition; but, far enough to satisfy the vast majority of their customers. The Intel transition featured Rosetta, for a while (until 10.6), then dropped it. This effectively flushed the 'busted old shit' straight down the pipes.
Gene Amdahl and Fred Brooks were both important players at IBM, each making essential contributions to the System 360. That's an interesting connection between MMM and Amdahl's law, undoubtedly they talked.
As for TFA, misquoting Al Swearengen, "someone open a window, it smell like cat piss in here."
Good idea. So good, in fact, you're getting close to how it's actually done: data is moved in parallel in bulk. For example, when your program accesses an 8-bit byte, the 256-bit (or larger) chunk (called a cache line containing it gets read from DRAM into cache. There is no address space sacrifice because once the cache line is read, additional logic selects the desired byte from the cache line using the low-order bits of the address.
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Maybe not. T1 is 1.544 Mbps, HD on Netflix requires 5 Mbps.
"That sure does look like a mile of cars to me"
Just think of it as a homeopathic dose that will impart protection from future events.
Don't believe everything you read/see in a press release. Apply some critical thinking.
According to TLA, x86 compatibility is achieved through emulation. Emulating the x86 instruction set is a non-trivial exercise that almost invariably results in extremely disappointing performance. Why? The x86 instruction set is an accretion of the instruction sets of older Intel processors, beginning with the 8008. This yields a difficult (i.e., computationally expensive) instruction set to decode and execute. Over the years, Intel has implemented micro-architectures that address this problem through special purpose hardware. If you're so inclined, have a read here http://www.intel.com/content/w... for details. The takeaway is that simply emulating the x86 instruction set results in about a 100x slowdown for an equivalent clock rate. So, although this is an interesting technology demonstration, I seriously doubt it will prove useful outside of a small set of applications. It will certainly not be a satisfactory gaming platform.
Pizza. Burn the roof of your mouth cheesy goodness.
I really miss Nancy Reagan.
Better be nice, I hear BitZtream is on the short list for secretary of commerce.
Microsoft is making it hard for independent virus vendors
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I thought it had been surpassed by C++, but this is great for everyone.
Nah it just morphed into Delphi and got hacked to death
Wait, I thought that Modula-2 was the successor...
Wait for it....
Oberon
With so many big fans, I'm wondering how loud this thing is. Could be it be like working over an old Hoover?
My gesture to Amazon: Middle finger up.
Not gonna dip my toe in this much stupid. Uh-uh.
I've got a better idea: Single payer.
A lot of companies are trying to connect with users for legitimate purposes. There's a lot of money to made and saved.
Quite right. That would be "Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top, and Spam."
Fine, you think you've got a cozy little electronic commons where everything will be unicorns and rainbows if we are all just willing to show our beautiful selves to one another. In the meantime, Facebook and its partners are making bank data mining your junk and marketing to you. And they say, "Thanks!"
So, they're going to stop shoving the Ask toolbar as part of their update process?
The B-52 did not "[drop] the first hydrogen bomb in the Bikini Islands in 1956" as the summary states. The first hydrogen bomb was much too heavy to fly, resembling a locomotive in size and weight. "Ivy Mike" was the first hydrogen bomb tested, detonated by the United States at Enewetak Atoll on November 1, 1952. It weighed 80 tons and yielded about 10 megatons.
So more busted old shit is constantly created and ported to the current MS platform to become the new 'busted old shit' that people need to be able to run on new machines.
Interesting. This makes me think that Apple may have discovered the "secret sauce", albeit accidentally. With each processor transition, Apple has provided a compatibility window that slammed shut at a point in time not too far from the transition; but, far enough to satisfy the vast majority of their customers. The Intel transition featured Rosetta, for a while (until 10.6), then dropped it. This effectively flushed the 'busted old shit' straight down the pipes.
As for TFA, misquoting Al Swearengen, "someone open a window, it smell like cat piss in here."
Sigh.
This just goes so far beyond bad, all I can think to do is build a blanket fort and retreat to it with a fifth of JD.
This is the first thing that came to mind. That, and we are really, really fucked .
Good idea. So good, in fact, you're getting close to how it's actually done: data is moved in parallel in bulk. For example, when your program accesses an 8-bit byte, the 256-bit (or larger) chunk (called a cache line containing it gets read from DRAM into cache. There is no address space sacrifice because once the cache line is read, additional logic selects the desired byte from the cache line using the low-order bits of the address.