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Processors, Part Three: the Future. New models.

Posted on 24th September 20187th October 2020by Nelson Vides

If one big com­plex thread being executed too fast is risky as we saw, because there’s a phys­ic­al lim­it to sheer clock speed and cheat­ing optim­isa­tions are unsafe, then, we all know the oth­er option: what about doing many simple and small things inde­pend­ently? To put it dif­fer­ently: if we can­not make the clock any […]

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Processors, Part Two: the Present. Meltdown and Spectre

Posted on 19th September 20187th October 2020by Nelson Vides
meltdown spectre

Imagine a res­taur­ant. A pro­fes­sion­al chef, in charge of the best piz­zas in town, and nobody knows how’re they done. It’s such a secret, those magic ingredi­ents. And ima­gine a bunch of appren­tices, sup­posed to help him. Imagine them fol­low­ing the chef’s orders. And then see, the chef going to the fridge to take some […]

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Processors, Part One: the Past. The Architecture

Posted on 10th September 20187th October 2020by Nelson Vides

How to widen the bot­tle­neck of pro­cessing? If the solu­tion were trivi­al, it would­n’t mer­it a post – in fact the work­arounds are of the kind that’s easy to invent but hard to form­al­ise. Like the mega­pixels are not a true indic­at­or of the qual­ity of a cam­era, or the decibels are not a true […]

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On so called low-level and performant languages

Posted on 3rd September 20187th October 2020by Nelson Vides

Last time, we dug into a new debate: are lan­guages really decoupled from the hard­ware that runs them? Are the semantics of a lan­guage mod­el­ling main­stream hard­ware, and should they? Can we escape to new mod­els of hard­ware, and new mod­els of semantics? We saw that Backus made a good point arguing that lan­guages have […]

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