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[c117152]

Changing ISAs every 3-5y will be welcomed by most developers as a form of planned obsoleteness.



In what world? In the one I'm...

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Cite what exactly, the future? ARM9 broke binary compatibility with ARM8 which broke with ARM7. Ignoring the cortex and thumb variations, that's 3 major...

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Yeah I guess hoping they've seen the light of GNU is a bit too much



Sounds about right. Though I have no idea how Qualcomm...

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What's your impression of Qualcomm's own mainlining efforts aside from your own graphics work? Like, I personally can't remember a time when they mainlined...

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Hardly. The branch-prediction in ARM is both newer and cleaner so it's not incredibly difficult to fix. Moreover, ARM can just break ISA backwards compatibility...

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It's probably a contractual issue where Asus is supposed to pay per EndlessOS install to Endless Solutions....

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If it was an issue of performance we would all be using linux instead of windows by now. Fact of the matter is, the mid-high end is an Intel backwards...

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Would you buy one knowing your games, CAD and graphic design software isn't going to become available for years to come? Cause that's what people use...

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It's pretty reasonable considering the i5-7300U is a medium range mobile chip and they're already well within most of the i3 performance metrics.
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The SD845 is so popular with smartphone SoCs that I'm afraid most OEM will consider putting it in a laptop as a waste :/ Still, the graphics stack is...

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Compare and contrast: https://plorth.org/language/ https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/

One of the Lisps if you want something more...

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I guess I'll wait for openwrt 18.06.01...

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Without actually looking into it, as a general rule of thumb, an efficient cipher is an insecure cipher. After all, the whole point is to make it computationally...