3 Nov
2005
3 Nov
'05
9:19 p.m.
According to a talk I saw on the web a few years ago
now, by one of
the guys in charge of P3 (or P4), people still ask "can I have
such-and-such" an instruction!
The nerve of them! Expecting what people want
to actually matter to
the processor designers! Seriously, if you need pop(N) or whatever, you can
implement it today
and in a year (or two) from now you'll be running as fast as you
thought you would have been with pop(N).
And you have the nerve to preface that with "seriously"?! You could
say the same about pretty much any software thing - simulate it and let
Moore's Law speed it up. Some of us aren't willing to wait a year (or
two) per feature to run it at a decent speed.
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