From: Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester <wirklich@nicht.at>
Subject: Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:19:06 +0100
Date: 2015-12-28T18:19:06+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1512281807280.14144@Lydia.insomnia247.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n5nbml$v32$1@dont-email.me>
On December 26th, 2015, Jeffrey R. Carter posted:
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|"When I started out in S/W development, I learned some rules, such as, "Integer |
|math is much faster than floating point," and, "Memory is scarce." |
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|In the 90s, processors began to typically have an FPU, and floating-point math |
|became as fast as integer, and in some cases, since it could proceed in parallel|
|with the CPU, faster. |
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|When computers began to commonly have RAM in quantities measured in GB rather |
|than KB or MB, memory ceased to be scarce, [. . .] |
|[. . .] |
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|[. . .] |
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|-- |
|Jeff Carter" |
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Even a number-crunching workstation is likely to have caches which are
much smaller than ideal.
Not all current FPGAs nor embedded microcontrollers have an FPU (nor
much memory, let alone a cache).
Yours sincerely,
Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
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2015-12-27 0:37 Everything You Know Is Wrong Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-12-27 7:55 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-12-27 17:37 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-12-27 8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-27 17:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-04 14:44 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2015-12-28 9:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-12-28 11:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-28 16:27 ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-28 17:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-28 18:50 ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-28 20:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 11:42 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 12:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 13:50 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 14:06 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-12-29 14:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 16:31 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-12-29 17:02 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 16:57 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 17:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 17:53 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 18:09 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 22:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-01-04 14:51 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2015-12-29 21:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-12-28 17:19 ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester [this message]
2015-12-29 23:37 ` darkestkhan
2016-01-05 13:52 ` brbarkstrom
2016-01-10 14:46 ` Michael Erdmann
2016-02-29 12:14 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2016-03-02 14:11 ` vincent.diemunsch
2016-03-02 14:23 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-03-02 15:44 ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 16:30 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-03-02 16:36 ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 16:52 ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 14:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-02 15:31 ` vincent.diemunsch
2016-02-29 12:27 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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