And most of the time, they're right. You can get a lot of gains out of multithreading without doing much
Most of the time the cost of synchronization and shared cache overuse outweighs any gains given by supposed parallelism. Worse yet, in a genuinely multitasking environment, such as a server with large number of clients, there is no benefit in the first place because CPU time ends up being stolen from unrelated tasks in other processes, tasks that actually use CPU and RAM more effectively due to being unrelated and requiring no synchronization.
On the other hand, many algorithms can be SIMD'ified to get actual performance benefits without wasting CPU time or additional synchronization, however ignorant Windows programmers such as yourself, only stumble on those things by accident when compiler recognizes their scribblings and does optimization behind their backs.
as long as you're not stupid enough to introduce subtle bugs doing so.
There is nothing subtle about race conditions. Just because you can avoid those, does not mean that you are not an idiot.
Octa-SPI interfaces -- two quad SPIs (each with its own clock) with DMA buffers on the same controller and combined interrupt logic, for fast communication with cheap FPGAs.
1. Built-in, externally SPI-programmable bootloader flash. Preferrably too small to work with any imaginable UEFI implementation, so it won't work in locked down devices with Windows RT, and if someone will stuff it there, bootloader would be easy to replace by the user.
2. If the chip contains anything more than the CPU itself, and any kind of ROM/flash, ship it with a matching flat device tree in a known location, so bootloaders and OS won't have to have those things hardcoded.
Honestly, any programmer worth $120k could make something more efficient just using threads, if they thought about it. This will get you 20% of the efficiency gains without thinking of it.
THIS IS WHAT WINDOWS PROGRAMMERS ACTUALLY BELIEVE.
College are not designed to make the smartest 1% smarter or more successful.
Actually they do that, too. They don't make 1% most successful any more successful, but this is because your society is based on winner-takes-all principle that turns everything into a win-a-lottery-then-lord-over-everything.
They didn't need degrees because they were going to be hiring *themselves*, not having to worry about some HR department that will toss any non-degree applicants right into the trash.
They also didn't need a consistent and extensive set of knowledge that comes with college educations, because their companies were all based on stupid ideas of founders, developed by smart people they hired. Though most those stupid ideas failed miserably, we only hear about those few that did not (and now spoil technology for everyone else by their continued stupidity backed by massive amount of money).
Despite its faults, the US's willingness to accept introspection and self-criticism is hard to match.
"YES, I AM EVIL! BUT YOU CAN DO NOTHING ABOUT IT, SO OBEY ME, LITTLE PEOPLE, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" is not a kind of "introspection and self-criticism" to be proud of.
It's still possible to drive a car with bicycle controls and seat, however motorcycle with car seat and steering wheel will be more comfortable while standing still but fall when anyone tried to ride it.
Oh come now. If you going to insult the OP, at least back up your rhetoric with something coherent.
If there could possibly be an argument against my claims, coherency isn't it.
I think Russia is much happier being a middling power now made of of a handful of oligarchs. Much more manageable.
And that's completely baseless. Oligarchs are interested in increase of their power at the expense of other oligarchs, not unlike your corporations' leaders -- they are self-selected by this trait. Communist leaders of all levels in post-Stalin time knew that all their needs will be met through a system of privileges, but they can not fight each other. That created disincentive for pretty much all truly destructive behavior, and now it is gone.
No, I am not dumb, you are. Dollar is only worth anything because it is used for international oil trade. Increased amount of dollars outside US will mean that oil prices (and therefore prices of absolutely everything else) will adjust proportionally, so total value of all currency will stay the same no matter how much of it is printed.
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And most of the time, they're right. You can get a lot of gains out of multithreading without doing much
Most of the time the cost of synchronization and shared cache overuse outweighs any gains given by supposed parallelism. Worse yet, in a genuinely multitasking environment, such as a server with large number of clients, there is no benefit in the first place because CPU time ends up being stolen from unrelated tasks in other processes, tasks that actually use CPU and RAM more effectively due to being unrelated and requiring no synchronization.
On the other hand, many algorithms can be SIMD'ified to get actual performance benefits without wasting CPU time or additional synchronization, however ignorant Windows programmers such as yourself, only stumble on those things by accident when compiler recognizes their scribblings and does optimization behind their backs.
as long as you're not stupid enough to introduce subtle bugs doing so.
There is nothing subtle about race conditions. Just because you can avoid those, does not mean that you are not an idiot.
Octa-SPI interfaces -- two quad SPIs (each with its own clock) with DMA buffers on the same controller and combined interrupt logic, for fast communication with cheap FPGAs.
1. Built-in, externally SPI-programmable bootloader flash. Preferrably too small to work with any imaginable UEFI implementation, so it won't work in locked down devices with Windows RT, and if someone will stuff it there, bootloader would be easy to replace by the user.
2. If the chip contains anything more than the CPU itself, and any kind of ROM/flash, ship it with a matching flat device tree in a known location, so bootloaders and OS won't have to have those things hardcoded.
Honestly, any programmer worth $120k could make something more efficient just using threads, if they thought about it. This will get you 20% of the efficiency gains without thinking of it.
THIS IS WHAT WINDOWS PROGRAMMERS ACTUALLY BELIEVE.
Congratulations, you are an idiot!
These graduates had very shallow knowledge as if all they did was memorize material, and they greatly lacked any sort of critical thinking skills.
Then they went to shit college.
College are not designed to make the smartest 1% smarter or more successful.
Actually they do that, too.
They don't make 1% most successful any more successful, but this is because your society is based on winner-takes-all principle that turns everything into a win-a-lottery-then-lord-over-everything.
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They didn't need degrees because they were going to be hiring *themselves*, not having to worry about some HR department that will toss any non-degree applicants right into the trash.
They also didn't need a consistent and extensive set of knowledge that comes with college educations, because their companies were all based on stupid ideas of founders, developed by smart people they hired. Though most those stupid ideas failed miserably, we only hear about those few that did not (and now spoil technology for everyone else by their continued stupidity backed by massive amount of money).
No, they just don't want to talk to you.
That's hysterical lunacy that only moron or idiot would ever think of!
I went to work at EDS, and did beautifully.
Oh.
The fact that it is done as a part of an existing project that is run by the company. Otherwise company has nothing to do with this.
Please re-read what you just said. You just made a great argument against what you are arguing for.
Alexander Litvinenko.
I guess, Berezovsky's henchmen don't leak documents.
Despite its faults, the US's willingness to accept introspection and self-criticism is hard to match.
"YES, I AM EVIL! BUT YOU CAN DO NOTHING ABOUT IT, SO OBEY ME, LITTLE PEOPLE, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" is not a kind of "introspection and self-criticism" to be proud of.
It's still possible to drive a car with bicycle controls and seat, however motorcycle with car seat and steering wheel will be more comfortable while standing still but fall when anyone tried to ride it.
...would still beat Georgia.
I meant car seat, of course.
I'm looking forward to the Microsoft car, which will have a bicycle seat and controls.
With Microsoft design philosophy I would rather expect a motorcycle with a cat seat and a steering wheel.
...and of all things, it's an opinion that Windows is great. Why, exactly, is is posted here?
Or with their foreign "sponsors"?
Your name is Garybaldy?
Oh come now. If you going to insult the OP, at least back up your rhetoric with something coherent.
If there could possibly be an argument against my claims, coherency isn't it.
I think Russia is much happier being a middling power now made of of a handful of oligarchs. Much more manageable.
And that's completely baseless. Oligarchs are interested in increase of their power at the expense of other oligarchs, not unlike your corporations' leaders -- they are self-selected by this trait. Communist leaders of all levels in post-Stalin time knew that all their needs will be met through a system of privileges, but they can not fight each other. That created disincentive for pretty much all truly destructive behavior, and now it is gone.
No, I am not dumb, you are. Dollar is only worth anything because it is used for international oil trade. Increased amount of dollars outside US will mean that oil prices (and therefore prices of absolutely everything else) will adjust proportionally, so total value of all currency will stay the same no matter how much of it is printed.