By: anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com), August 13, 2014 4:55 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Megol (golem960.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 13, 2014 9:25 am wrote:
> Megol (golem960.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 12, 2014 5:48 am wrote:
> > anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on August 11, 2014 8:46 pm wrote:
> > > Oh wow you solved everything. Lucky x86 has zero other decoding difficulties except for variable lengths.
> > >
> >
> > Yes as far as I know. But I guess you are willing to give us all other problems?
> >
> > BTW: Things are only a problem if they hinder scaling when running actual code. If not I'm still correct.
> >
>
> As you haven't answered this yet (most likely because listing all x86 scalability problems
> take time) I'll again ask another question that you didn't touch earlier:
>
> If the decode problems are specific to x86 why are most studies in scalability limits done on RISC
> architectures? And why do they show that going wider than two wide gives rapidly dimishing returns?
Until you answer my questions earlier in the thread, of course I won't pander to your rubbish. I'll instead employ your cheap tactic: go and read some papers and do some googling.
> Megol (golem960.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 12, 2014 5:48 am wrote:
> > anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on August 11, 2014 8:46 pm wrote:
> > > Oh wow you solved everything. Lucky x86 has zero other decoding difficulties except for variable lengths.
> > >
> >
> > Yes as far as I know. But I guess you are willing to give us all other problems?
> >
> > BTW: Things are only a problem if they hinder scaling when running actual code. If not I'm still correct.
> >
>
> As you haven't answered this yet (most likely because listing all x86 scalability problems
> take time) I'll again ask another question that you didn't touch earlier:
>
> If the decode problems are specific to x86 why are most studies in scalability limits done on RISC
> architectures? And why do they show that going wider than two wide gives rapidly dimishing returns?
Until you answer my questions earlier in the thread, of course I won't pander to your rubbish. I'll instead employ your cheap tactic: go and read some papers and do some googling.