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Agreed: I was seeing this in Oracle middleware, where we has a gazillion non-concurrent programs serving each of a large community of end-users. One of my load tests was at 3,000 replayed users, each using multiple services and a share of a 64-core Oracle database server.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 30 March: What got in the way of your writing this month?
Birds.
No, not pigeon droppings on my keyboard, migrating birds. Just yesterday we had a Western Grebe, a bazillion Pintails and a Eurasian Widgeon. A nice day out in the spring weather, chatting with other birders […]
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We (including I) benchmarked huge improvements in the ability to run ordinary programs concurrently. That's because we scheduled at runtime, not compile-time. VLIW tries to do the latter, and IMHO, is stupid.(:-))
I understand (but may be wrong!) that SIMD-like "VIS" operations were as […]
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#WritersCoffeeClub 3/28. Do you ever sacrifice blunt clarity for prose that flows well?
No, but I struggle at being both succinct and correct
RE: https://chaos.social/@Toasterson/116314504107079961
Holy cow! The technique would utterly work in RISC-V.
And it would probably solve the speculation-bug problem of existing systems. See https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/how-to-go-fast-without-speculating-maybe-perhaps/
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/116312792144303291
Daniele Smith has written 9 racist and/or useless questions, to put to Albertans as a referendum.
Can you say "push poll"?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@hootalex/116319659886471802
Note the Osprey turn the fish around head-first, for streamlining purposes
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@mfioretti_en and another added to an article about age-assertion code in Linux https://lwn.net/Articles/1065588/
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#WritersCoffeeClub 3/29. Share one of your writing milestones.
My first editor changed jobs and started to have chest pains, about two chapters in. So the techie had to pick up the load
