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[wizard69]

The problem is that buying a GPU card these days amounts to buying a second computer. One way to look at this is that the GPU cards are surprisingly...

[wizard69]

Well to disagree again, many general purpose apps simply are not heavy users of libm, often very demanding apps bypass libm to use optimized libraries...

[wizard69]

As other have pointed out the use of fused multiply adds isn't a huge factor in glibc. There are special libraries that have used this facility for...

[wizard69]

First I honestly believe nothing is crash safe. Rust may be far better at generating programs than some languages but that doesn't mean hackers won't...

[wizard69]

Maybe that is their intention but that is far better than what they might have done. At least this way the language has a potential future. I say...

[wizard69]

I suspect this is the wrong view, the new languages to run on top of the JVM came about due to the fact that Java had become a massive mess. Also Java...

[wizard69]

Well Sparc was dying so that made sense, they switched to Linux fo rate most part so Solaris is just baggage, Star Office is likely better off in the...

[wizard69]

Why not? The fact is being truly open like BSD means that you get some support from corporate sponsors be it money or bug fixes. It is obviously a...

[wizard69]

It is not uncommon for hyperthreading to be turned off on a scientific workstation. As noted sometime the gains just aren't there, sometimes you even...

[wizard69]

Waiting is good but you run into the same issues. Most likely Raven Ridge, in one form, will be a 65 watt chip. So the chip will self manage power...

[wizard69]

Actually it can! That is what the correction part is all about.

It depends upon the use case. For most home computer users it is wasteful....