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That's an odd claim. For example, Sun were used for "client server computing" for a long time. Sun Workstations (like my Sun 3/60 and SPARCClassic)...

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If it's just Intel motherboards, I don't mind. The last Intel MB I bought (a Zappa board for Pentium 100, I think) went bad in the early 1990s. As for...

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Not true. I was around before vi. And I was repelled by it when it was first released (it was a horrible pig on a PDP-11). I still don't know how to...

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The obvious open source alternative to Matlab is Octave. Is it not good enough? (I've never used either.)

This group has worked on optimizing...

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I downloaded the latest Clear Linux live .iso to try it. I booted it on an HP Stream Mini. It could not get X going, probably because the box had only...

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No, this is not "part of the workaround". There is a fix. It is the microcode update. It is supposedly a complete fix, in and of itself....

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It would be interesting to know how much the .text size of programs is inflated by the workaround.

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This testing was done with Clear Linux (from Intel itself). It would be interesting to replicate it with a more neutral distro. The obvious one is Arch...

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Technically, it is an optimization. The bug itself is (I trust) squashed by the microcode patch. So there is no need to workaround the bug. There is...

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1.003 translates to 0.3%...

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The way that Intel has changed GAS is to add effectless prefix bytes to certain instructions, pushing the JCC past the 32B boundary. Perhaps a little...

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We do know that the bug doesn't manifest itself very often. JCC ending on or crossing a 32 byte boundary is very very common and yet few users have observed...

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The LLVM toolchain includes an assembler. Is that being updated or do all x86-64 systems use gas (GCC's assembler)?