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FPGAs are a lot more expensive but it isn't clear to me whether there is anything inherently more expensive about the chips themselves, relative to their...

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I just realized this but: is there a Vulkan equivalent to VirGL? Because imagine the overhead of trying to play a DX12 game in a VM, where you have to...

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It isn't really clear to me why that isn't a thing. Modern CPUs can have as much as 4 different kinds of processors on them, maybe even 5 in some cases,...

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This is a significant improvement over last gen, yet, it really shows how overpriced last-gen was considering how this is still underwhelming.
Except...

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Of course I make mistakes, regularly. I sometimes even make mistakes where the program isn't yielding the desired outcome. The difference is, I don't...

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I'm a little surprised negatives weren't working, but moreso, I'm surprised about how many people think it's weird to encounter negatives. While I wouldn't...

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Seems to me you're either a crap developer or are using untrustworthy libraries.
You should have no warnings or errors before something reaches...

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It's popular for Hackintoshes because Mac requires an EFI and to my understanding, not just any EFI will do. For pretty much any other OS, they will...

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Rust is slower to get from point A to point B, and it also requires you to compile code. Python is popular because it is interpreted and because it is...

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Wouldn't it be easier for users to just use something like Clover EFI?

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Comments like this are great examples of getting angry over your own willful ignorance.
Python and Rust target such very different markets. It's...

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Well with Intel's 10nm struggles, AMD's performance value, AMD's higher core density, and AMD's better performance-per-watt, it makes sense how Aurora...

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I never said hybrid ISA, I said hybrid CPUs, which big.LITTLE is. But my point was that there's nothing stopping a hybrid ISA from happening.
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I don't understand how you can emulate an architecture at boot time for bare metal. Obviously when it comes to VMs, it's a moot issue.

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The problem with an accessory device is that it won't work for natively booting anything 32-bit, which really is the main appeal of retaining the compatibility....

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I overall think this is fine if it helps reduce transistors. Emulation shouldn't be a big deal since you're stepping down. Besides, there aren't really...

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While I agree that there is a level of unnecessary duplication, it's open-source, so if the code can really so easily be unduplicated then it should be...

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I don't get it... why are these even being compared? They serve different purposes. Might as well throw VMs into the mix. I could see a system having...

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As stated by my own post and user1, that "poo poo performance" is negligible for the kinds of calls that KDE's compositor is doing. Even in...

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I don't get why people are so obsessed with using Vulkan for a compositor. With Zink in good shape, the effort doesn't outweigh the benefit as far as...