Patrick Chase (patrickjchase.delete@this.gmail.com) on July 2, 2013 8:34 am wrote:
> anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on June 30, 2013 2:53 am wrote:
> > EduardoS (no.delete@this.spam.com) on June 29, 2013 9:31 pm wrote:
> > > Ask chip designers, looking from distance designing a FPU that doesn't sucks
> > > very badly doesn't look as hard as designing a scheduller that performs exceptioanlly well.
> >
> > Your logic simply doesn't hold up. If they just wanted to get flops, the CPU would look like a GPU.
>
> You're confusing "FP performance" with "latency machine vs throughput machine".

I was trying to argue with reductio ad absurdum. Not very well, perhaps, but I do not suggest doing this would actually be a good idea. So don't worry.

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