From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] NUMA
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:56:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107162256.53336.dexen.devries@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b710c08f41ab0222cee59359858d3657@ladd.quanstro.net>
On Saturday 16 July 2011 21:54:33 erik quanstrom wrote:
> it's interesting you bring this up. risc has largely been removed
> from architectures. if you tie the instruction set and machine model
> to the actual hardware, then you need to write new compilers and
> recompile everything every few years. instead, the risc is hidden
> and the instruction set stays the same. this allows for a lot of
> under-the-hood innovation in isolation from the architecture.
interesting angle. till now i believed it's easier to innovate in software
(even compilers) than in silicon. where did we go wrong that silicon became
the easier way? would it be fair to blame GCC and other heavyweight champions?
--
dexen deVries
> (...) I never use more than 800Mb of RAM. I am running Linux,
> a browser and a terminal.
rjbond3rd in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692529
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-16 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-15 15:15 tlaronde
2011-07-15 20:21 ` tlaronde
2011-07-15 20:47 ` ron minnich
2011-07-15 22:59 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-07-16 8:02 ` tlaronde
2011-07-16 16:27 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-16 18:06 ` tlaronde
2011-07-16 19:29 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-16 19:54 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-16 20:56 ` dexen deVries [this message]
2011-07-16 22:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-07-17 1:44 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 7:38 ` tlaronde
2011-07-17 8:44 ` Bakul Shah
2011-07-17 10:02 ` tlaronde
2011-07-17 12:04 ` dexen deVries
2011-07-17 15:24 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 15:28 ` ron minnich
[not found] ` <CAP6exYL2DJXbKfPZ8+D5uL=fRWKEyr8vY2OVc4NTO3wsFo=Unw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-17 15:32 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 17:16 ` Bakul Shah
2011-07-17 17:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 15:51 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 16:12 ` dexen deVries
2011-07-17 16:37 ` tlaronde
2011-07-17 10:08 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-17 14:50 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 17:01 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-17 3:39 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-07-17 7:01 ` tlaronde
2011-07-17 15:05 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-07-17 15:26 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 15:52 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
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