Windows NT 4.0 supported x86, Mips, Alpha and PowerPC. I read somewhere that the installation CD was packed - files common to all architectures where only stored once in the ISO image. If you copied the files off the disk, the resulting image was too big to burn unless you had an ISO image packer.
Although Scorpion and Cortex-A8 have many similarities, based on the information released by Qualcomm, the two cores differ in a number of interesting ways. For example, while the Scorpion and Cortex-A8 NEON implementations execute the same SIMD-style instructions, Scorpion's implementation can process128 bits of data in parallel, compared to 64 bits on Cortex-A8. Half of Scorpion's SIMD data path can be shut down to conserve power. Scorpion's pipeline is deeper: It has a 13-stage load/store pipeline and two integer pipelinesâ"one of which is 10 stages and can perform simple arithmetic operations (such as adds and subtracts) while the other is 12 stages and can perform both simple and more complex arithmetic, like MACs. Scorpion also has a 23-stage floating-point/SIMD pipeline, and unlike on Cortex-A8, VFPv3 operations are pipelined. Scorpion uses a number of other microarchitectural tweaks that are intended to either boost speed or reduce power consumption. (Scorpion's architects previously designed low-power, high-performance processors for IBM.) The core supports multiple clock and voltage domains to enable additional power savings. In addition to developing a custom microarchitecture, Qualcomm also customized the core's circuit design and layout in an effort to improve energy efficiency.
Overall, Qualcomm has made a huge investment in creating a custom implementation of the ARMv7 architecture. By way of comparison, Texas Instruments customized just the layout for the Cortex-A8 for its OMAP3 chips, and it has been reported that the process took 45 engineers working for a period of years. If so, Scorpion's development probably represents an investment on the order of tens of millions of dollars. And what's the payoff? At first glance, it doesn't look like muchâ"as noted earlier, Scorpion is expected to run at 1 GHz in a 65 nm process, which is slightly lower than the 1.1 GHz top speed that ARM currently quotes for the Cortex-A8 in 65 nm. Scorpion is quoted as providing 2100 DMIPS at 1 GHz; Cortex-A8 is quoted at 2000 DMIPS at the same speed. However, a notable difference is that the Cortex-A8 top speed is for a TSMC GP (general-purpose) process, while the Scorpion speed is for the LP (low-power) process. ARM quotes the speed of Cortex-A8 in an LP process as roughly 650 MHz, and although TI does not publicize the exact speed of the hand-crafted, low-power Cortex-A8 core used in its OMAP3 chips, BDTI has estimated that it runs at roughly 450 MHz. (BDTI's benchmark results for the Cortex-A8 are available at BDTI's website, www.BDTI.com.) Thus, Qualcomm expects Scorpion to run significantly faster than Cortex-A8 when both are implemented in the low-power processes commonly used for mobile applications.
What about power consumption? Qualcomm claims that Scorpion will have power consumption of roughly 200 mW at 600 MHz (this figure includes leakage current, though its contribution is typically minimal in low-power processes). In comparison, ARM reports on its website that a Cortex-A8 in a 65 nm LP process consumes.59 mW/MHz (excluding leakage), which translates into about 350 mW at 600 MHz.
BDTI has not independently verified the above clock speeds or power figures, but if they are accurate, it appears that Qualcomm's efforts have yielded significant benefits in terms of both speed and energy efficiency. Clearly, Qualcomm is betting that its investment will pay off in chip sales, and that these improvements will give Snapdragon an edge over key competitors like TI's OMAP3430 and Freescale's i.MX31."
You may joke but when you do static binary translation, finding the COMEFROM's by hand is very time consuming.
http://www.gtoal.com/sbt/ Well, we need to know the flow control of the program and note the destinations of jumps. Those jump destinations are the only opcodes which need to be labelled. To some extent you might be able to work those out statically, by having a slightly smarter disassembler framework which does a tree-walk of the source, starting at the entry point. I.e. whenever it hits a branch or subroutine call, it also goes off to the destination and looks at the code there too. The problem with this is that very few architectures are designed so that you always can determine the jump destination just by looking at the code. Most architectures allow indirect jumps through store or registers, or let you tweak a return address on the stack so that your return from subroutine goes somewhere other than where your subroutine was called from. This is a major pain in the ass and the only practical solution is to profile the execution of the code and mark the jump destinations at run time.
In fact if I were designing a JITable VM, I would definitely have a list of possible jump destinations in the executable format.
I mean... "In fact, Palin asked for the resignation of a handful of department heads to test their loyalty, according to reports at the time."... wtf is that?
Her opponent had appointed them, and they'd made statements supporting hin during the election. She sent out letters asking them to support her policies or resign.
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/510219.html Reached at home, Stambaugh said he still doesn't understand why he's been fired. ''There never was an appropriate response,'' he said. ''How did we not support the administration?''
Now he's talking to an attorney. While both Stambaugh and Emmons serve at the mayor's pleasure, Stambaugh said he has a contract that prohibits the city from firing him without cause.
Both Stambaugh and Emmons publicly supported Palin's opponent, long-time mayor John Stein during the campaign last fall. When she was elected, Palin questioned their loyalty and initially asked for their resignations. But Stambaugh said he thought any questions had been resolved.
Stambaugh has headed the Wasilla Police Department since it was created in 1993. Before that, he worked 22 years with Anchorage Police Department, rising to the rank of captain before retiring.
Emmons, who has been the city's library director for seven years, would not comment about the affair.
Ha, ha I love doing that. I had a videoconference once where I was coughing really hard. They discussed the plan, which was "Hal codes like a bastard". One of the guys at the other end of the video conference said "what do we do if Hal dies".
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/704/ As for Kilkenny's claim, there is no proof that Palin tried to fire the librarian because she refused to consider removing books. In fact, Palin asked for the resignation of a handful of department heads to test their loyalty, according to reports at the time. The claim that Palin had specific books she wanted removed is also unsupported. Kilkenny herself said she does not recall that any titles were named by Palin at the time.
Yes, a reporter provides a secondhand account 12 years later in which he says the librarian named books Palin wanted removed. But Stuart's recollection seems hazy (he didn't get the right title at first). The librarian isn't talking. There are no public records or meeting minutes to substantiate the claim. And no one else corroborates that Palin ever listed any titles. So we find no basis to find that part of the story true.
But Palin did ask the librarian if she would consider removing books. Maybe it was posed as a rhetorical question as Palin says. But she asked. So we rule the statement Half True.
Still I'm not completely impressed with other systems, the "meritocratic" technocratic bureaucracy espoused by the Chinese communist party seems flawed as well (don't buy Chinese Milk!). That's despite being described as "the Harvard Alumni Association wit an Army".
That's a very naive characterisation of the Chinese system, or any non democracy. From my experience it's more like organised crime with an army. Fact is absolute power lies with the people with the money and guns, not with the Harvard alumni.
One of my friend's husbands works in China. One of his partners is in the PLA, and the main reason he is a partner is because people are scared of him. Let's just say if her husband's company makes a business offer and you're Chinese, you don't refuse it once you find out he's involved.
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Windows NT 4.0 supported x86, Mips, Alpha and PowerPC. I read somewhere that the installation CD was packed - files common to all architectures where only stored once in the ISO image. If you copied the files off the disk, the resulting image was too big to burn unless you had an ISO image packer.
How DARE you call my understanding limited, you holier-than-thou elitist prick! I went through a technical college you know!
By the looks of it the technical college deployed active camouflage so you passed around it instead of running into it.
Don't forget Sophie Wilson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
Do not RTFA, contains furries.
The cliches are coming, thick and fast.
ARM CPU=PDA. x86 CPU=Netbook. Mind you a Snapdragon PDA/Phone with a QWERTY keypad would be a handy device.
--no-decoherence --many-worlds --fuck-upstream --unsafe-math --unsafe-compiler
It's possible to unblur them using gmask! I'll post the sequence, but my friends are at the door with a Party Van, so I'd better deal with that first.
I wonder what heating the fuel would do?
"269 votes would have given us President Gore"
And eight years of being reminded of that sad fact can take a toll on a man's soul that can't be quantified.
As the T shirt says "Bet you'll vote next time, hippy".
Qualcomm have just spent a fortune developing their own custom Arm core rather than just buying a standard ARM core like everyone else.
http://www.insidedsp.com/Articles/tabid/64/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/238/Qualcomm-Reveals-Details-on-Scorpion-Core.aspx
Although Scorpion and Cortex-A8 have many similarities, based on the information released by Qualcomm, the two cores differ in a number of interesting ways. For example, while the Scorpion and Cortex-A8 NEON implementations execute the same SIMD-style instructions, Scorpion's implementation can process128 bits of data in parallel, compared to 64 bits on Cortex-A8. Half of Scorpion's SIMD data path can be shut down to conserve power. Scorpion's pipeline is deeper: It has a 13-stage load/store pipeline and two integer pipelinesâ"one of which is 10 stages and can perform simple arithmetic operations (such as adds and subtracts) while the other is 12 stages and can perform both simple and more complex arithmetic, like MACs. Scorpion also has a 23-stage floating-point/SIMD pipeline, and unlike on Cortex-A8, VFPv3 operations are pipelined. Scorpion uses a number of other microarchitectural tweaks that are intended to either boost speed or reduce power consumption. (Scorpion's architects previously designed low-power, high-performance processors for IBM.) The core supports multiple clock and voltage domains to enable additional power savings.
In addition to developing a custom microarchitecture, Qualcomm also customized the core's circuit design and layout in an effort to improve energy efficiency.
Overall, Qualcomm has made a huge investment in creating a custom implementation of the ARMv7 architecture. By way of comparison, Texas Instruments customized just the layout for the Cortex-A8 for its OMAP3 chips, and it has been reported that the process took 45 engineers working for a period of years. If so, Scorpion's development probably represents an investment on the order of tens of millions of dollars. And what's the payoff?
At first glance, it doesn't look like muchâ"as noted earlier, Scorpion is expected to run at 1 GHz in a 65 nm process, which is slightly lower than the 1.1 GHz top speed that ARM currently quotes for the Cortex-A8 in 65 nm. Scorpion is quoted as providing 2100 DMIPS at 1 GHz; Cortex-A8 is quoted at 2000 DMIPS at the same speed. However, a notable difference is that the Cortex-A8 top speed is for a TSMC GP (general-purpose) process, while the Scorpion speed is for the LP (low-power) process. ARM quotes the speed of Cortex-A8 in an LP process as roughly 650 MHz, and although TI does not publicize the exact speed of the hand-crafted, low-power Cortex-A8 core used in its OMAP3 chips, BDTI has estimated that it runs at roughly 450 MHz. (BDTI's benchmark results for the Cortex-A8 are available at BDTI's website, www.BDTI.com.) Thus, Qualcomm expects Scorpion to run significantly faster than Cortex-A8 when both are implemented in the low-power processes commonly used for mobile applications.
What about power consumption? Qualcomm claims that Scorpion will have power consumption of roughly 200 mW at 600 MHz (this figure includes leakage current, though its contribution is typically minimal in low-power processes). In comparison, ARM reports on its website that a Cortex-A8 in a 65 nm LP process consumes .59 mW/MHz (excluding leakage), which translates into about 350 mW at 600 MHz.
BDTI has not independently verified the above clock speeds or power figures, but if they are accurate, it appears that Qualcomm's efforts have yielded significant benefits in terms of both speed and energy efficiency. Clearly, Qualcomm is betting that its investment will pay off in chip sales, and that these improvements will give Snapdragon an edge over key competitors like TI's OMAP3430 and Freescale's i.MX31."
It's quite impressi
You'd honestly consider trading you're first run still-in-packaging Boba Fett for a mere multi-million pound business?
If I had multiple millions I could could get hookers to dress up as Boba Fett.
Two at a time.
It seriously needs to be illegal for one corporation to buy another,and, when one goesunder, they just need to die,with all IP becoming public domain.
That would drastically reduce the value of IP. Which would reduce the salaries of people who create IP. I.e. most of the people here.
You may joke but when you do static binary translation, finding the COMEFROM's by hand is very time consuming.
http://www.gtoal.com/sbt/
Well, we need to know the flow control of the program and note the destinations of jumps. Those jump destinations are the only opcodes which need to be labelled. To some extent you might be able to work those out statically, by having a slightly smarter disassembler framework which does a tree-walk of the source, starting at the entry point. I.e. whenever it hits a branch or subroutine call, it also goes off to the destination and looks at the code there too. The problem with this is that very few architectures are designed so that you always can determine the jump destination just by looking at the code. Most architectures allow indirect jumps through store or registers, or let you tweak a return address on the stack so that your return from subroutine goes somewhere other than where your subroutine was called from. This is a major pain in the ass and the only practical solution is to profile the execution of the code and mark the jump destinations at run time.
In fact if I were designing a JITable VM, I would definitely have a list of possible jump destinations in the executable format.
hope dey get bettah.
90% of the Isle of Man would starve if KFC closed.
We can see number 6 here. Are you in Kentucky?
It's funny how even talking about the psychology of cognitive dissonance as it relates to trolling is moded down. Forbidden knowledge almost.
I mean... "In fact, Palin asked for the resignation of a handful of department heads to test their loyalty, according to reports at the time."... wtf is that?
Her opponent had appointed them, and they'd made statements supporting hin during the election. She sent out letters asking them to support her policies or resign.
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/510219.html
Reached at home, Stambaugh said he still doesn't understand why he's been fired. ''There never was an appropriate response,'' he said. ''How did we not support the administration?''
Now he's talking to an attorney. While both Stambaugh and Emmons serve at the mayor's pleasure, Stambaugh said he has a contract that prohibits the city from firing him without cause.
Both Stambaugh and Emmons publicly supported Palin's opponent, long-time mayor John Stein during the campaign last fall. When she was elected, Palin questioned their loyalty and initially asked for their resignations. But Stambaugh said he thought any questions had been resolved.
Stambaugh has headed the Wasilla Police Department since it was created in 1993. Before that, he worked 22 years with Anchorage Police Department, rising to the rank of captain before retiring.
Emmons, who has been the city's library director for seven years, would not comment about the affair.
Ha, ha I love doing that. I had a videoconference once where I was coughing really hard. They discussed the plan, which was "Hal codes like a bastard". One of the guys at the other end of the video conference said "what do we do if Hal dies".
SELL! SELL!
Sorry, wrong window.
This story is bullshit
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/704/
As for Kilkenny's claim, there is no proof that Palin tried to fire the librarian because she refused to consider removing books. In fact, Palin asked for the resignation of a handful of department heads to test their loyalty, according to reports at the time. The claim that Palin had specific books she wanted removed is also unsupported. Kilkenny herself said she does not recall that any titles were named by Palin at the time.
Yes, a reporter provides a secondhand account 12 years later in which he says the librarian named books Palin wanted removed. But Stuart's recollection seems hazy (he didn't get the right title at first). The librarian isn't talking. There are no public records or meeting minutes to substantiate the claim. And no one else corroborates that Palin ever listed any titles. So we find no basis to find that part of the story true.
But Palin did ask the librarian if she would consider removing books. Maybe it was posed as a rhetorical question as Palin says. But she asked. So we rule the statement Half True.
Still I'm not completely impressed with other systems, the "meritocratic" technocratic bureaucracy espoused by the Chinese communist party seems flawed as well (don't buy Chinese Milk!). That's despite being described as "the Harvard Alumni Association wit an Army".
That's a very naive characterisation of the Chinese system, or any non democracy. From my experience it's more like organised crime with an army. Fact is absolute power lies with the people with the money and guns, not with the Harvard alumni.
One of my friend's husbands works in China. One of his partners is in the PLA, and the main reason he is a partner is because people are scared of him. Let's just say if her husband's company makes a business offer and you're Chinese, you don't refuse it once you find out he's involved.
Very scary place.
If your mind is too open, dark thoughts might creep in.
Because the Democrats are about to win an election?