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Comment Re:Marketting hype? (Score 4, Informative) 183

Actually, there is much more parallelism (more than 4 ops/cycle) available in many of these applications, but you correctly observe that many of these ancillary features (branch mispredictions, cache misses, etc.) chip away at the achieved parallelism. The TRIPS ISA and microarchitecture (which is, as you correctly point out, a variant of an OOO "superscalar" processor) has numerous features to try to mitigate many of these features ... up to 64 outstanding cache misses from the 1,024-entry window, aggressive predication to eliminate many branches, a memory dependence predictor, and direct ALU-ALU communication for making data dependences more efficient. The most important difference is in the ISA, which allows the compiler to express dataflow graphs to directly to the hardware, which will work best (compared to convention) in ultra-small technologies where the wires are quite slow. To get a similar dependence graph in a RISC or CISC ISA, a superscalar processor must reconstruct it on the fly, instruction by instruction, using register renaming and issue window tag broadcasting. Thanks for reading.

Comment Re:What's a "progressive Christian"? (Score 1) 1535

Did you study Hitler and Nazi Germany - GENOCIDAL MANIAC! You're a horrible person for wanting to kill Jews. Don't deny it, you already said you studied Hitler in school, so obviously this means you're just like him.

Yes, that's exactly how you sound.

How about denouncing hypocrites ("professes to have a peaceful God that asks His adherents to act peacefully, then it does itself and everyone else a disservice by continuing to accept scripture that glorifies destruction in God's name.") rather than the actual religion. You'd be right in Jesus' territory.

Mathew 23:23 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."

The rest of that Chapter is pretty much the same, with Jesus rebuking the Pharisees for their hypocrisy.

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Someone released a rather amusing parady of the horribly constructed "Firefox Myths" article: "Firefox Fables." Had me laughing out of my chair.

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