You can think of the x86 front-end as a dynamic hardware compiler to the VLIW core. The optimizations end up handling a smaller instruction window than you would have with a software compiler, do to the smaller window you have to operate, but remember the x86 code was already compiled with parallelism in mind as well, so it's quite likely that the parallel instructions lie very close to one another.
I've read that some studies have shown that this sort of dynamic recompilation of code can lead to a reasonable improvement in performance on average (10% to 15% in a study x86 to x86 recompilation) even with well optimized code.
It's not surprising that Mandrake didn't rate very highly. Mankdrake is a desktop distro. From the page, the data was collected from the distro names embedded in the Apache server header.
I agree with you that Java would be a mistake for introductory programmers, but assembly should in my opinion be a second or third language. What we should be trying to teach is the style of thinking required to write good code. This involves having a good concept of the big picture as well as the fundamental workings of a computer.
Besides how many people code in assembly anymore? Almost noone. Better they learn something in between (C/C++), something that is remotely likely to be a language they will have to work with, and then go back and learn exactly how things are don e (assembly) and good ways to structure large projects (OOP).
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It's not really funny, unless someone doesn't get it
You must be kidding. Rocks. Do you realize how easy it would be to bash someones head in with one of those. Even pebbles can be used as projectiles.
Looks like we'll just have to use clay and our fingers...
but can't our fingers be used to strangle... -----------------
It's not really funny, unless someone doesn't get it
An in depth investigation of all Slashdot readers is becing conducted by the US Government. "After all, they're some of the staunchest supporters of encryption. They obviously must be involved in something sinister." -----------------
It's not really funny, unless someone doesn't get it
But then it gets to the point where even the nerd gets into it, and then the cool kids have to move on to something else
Wait... when did the "cool" kids get into anime. Where I'm from anime has always been a art form for the nerds, and the terminally "uncool". -----------------
It's not really funny, unless someone doesn't get it
Well, I suppose it could be considered to contain meat, but then so does everything we eat. They're are microorganisms and even insect parts in anything we consume. It doesn't seem to make lettuce any less vegetarian. I don't see why having minute DNA strands of animals in plants would make it any less vegetarian. -----------------
It's not really funny, unless someone doesn't get it
But what about recharge times? I mean, a wind up car is all good and fine, but the amount of energy required to coil the spring would take days, even weeks by hand. Even by machine it's still a long time (there's only so much turning you can do before the car either turns over or (in the case of being restrained) is torn apart from the force.
Personally I find those magic eye pictures to be very disorienting and I have very little sucess with them. It seems to me that this display will end up with many people like me who have problems seeing a magic eye being frustrated. I'd much rather have something based on alternate technology, that wouldn't require looking beyond the screen.
The War of 1812 was really just a continuation of the Revolutionary War. You could argue that the United States wasn't recognized as a real until then conclusion of the War of 1812, and therefore wasn't really a country, although it is considered one at the time since the US won.
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You can think of the x86 front-end as a dynamic hardware compiler to the VLIW core. The optimizations end up handling a smaller instruction window than you would have with a software compiler, do to the smaller window you have to operate, but remember the x86 code was already compiled with parallelism in mind as well, so it's quite likely that the parallel instructions lie very close to one another.
I've read that some studies have shown that this sort of dynamic recompilation of code can lead to a reasonable improvement in performance on average (10% to 15% in a study x86 to x86 recompilation) even with well optimized code.
It's not surprising that Mandrake didn't rate very highly. Mankdrake is a desktop distro. From the page, the data was collected from the distro names embedded in the Apache server header.
I agree with you that Java would be a mistake for introductory programmers, but assembly should in my opinion be a second or third language. What we should be trying to teach is the style of thinking required to write good code. This involves having a good concept of the big picture as well as the fundamental workings of a computer.
Besides how many people code in assembly anymore? Almost noone. Better they learn something in between (C/C++), something that is remotely likely to be a language they will have to work with, and then go back and learn exactly how things are don e (assembly) and good ways to structure large projects (OOP).
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It's not really funny, unless someone doesn't get it
You must be kidding. Rocks. Do you realize how easy it would be to bash someones head in with one of those. Even pebbles can be used as projectiles. Looks like we'll just have to use clay and our fingers...
but can't our fingers be used to strangle...
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It's not really funny, unless someone doesn't get it
An in depth investigation of all Slashdot readers is becing conducted by the US Government. "After all, they're some of the staunchest supporters of encryption. They obviously must be involved in something sinister."
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It's not really funny, unless someone doesn't get it
But then it gets to the point where even the nerd gets into it, and then the cool kids have to move on to something else
Wait... when did the "cool" kids get into anime. Where I'm from anime has always been a art form for the nerds, and the terminally "uncool".
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It's not really funny, unless someone doesn't get it
Well, I suppose it could be considered to contain meat, but then so does everything we eat. They're are microorganisms and even insect parts in anything we consume. It doesn't seem to make lettuce any less vegetarian. I don't see why having minute DNA strands of animals in plants would make it any less vegetarian.
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It's not really funny, unless someone doesn't get it
But what about recharge times? I mean, a wind up car is all good and fine, but the amount of energy required to coil the spring would take days, even weeks by hand. Even by machine it's still a long time (there's only so much turning you can do before the car either turns over or (in the case of being restrained) is torn apart from the force.
Personally I find those magic eye pictures to be very disorienting and I have very little sucess with them. It seems to me that this display will end up with many people like me who have problems seeing a magic eye being frustrated. I'd much rather have something based on alternate technology, that wouldn't require looking beyond the screen.
The War of 1812 was really just a continuation of the Revolutionary War. You could argue that the United States wasn't recognized as a real until then conclusion of the War of 1812, and therefore wasn't really a country, although it is considered one at the time since the US won.
It seems to me that everythign these is becoming more rugged: cars, tools, doors, and now computers. I wonder what's next.