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Excuse my ignorance, but does it perform any form of profile-driven optimization? Wikipedia mentions that it uses a "tracing JIT", which seems...

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While I agree that I wouldn't use a closed-source solution, I still appreciate having benchmarks against it....

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I dimly recall AMD supporting something like this, when using an AMD APU and dGPU. I could be mistaken, but you could investigate that if it matters to...

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PS2/XBox are about the oldest console HW that makes sense, IMO. You need a HDD, networking, and USB for a console to be of much use.

Didn't...

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Yes, basically what I'm saying.


Not because of ideological reasons, but because they're liable for illegal content on their platforms....

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Sorry, I'm not taking that right-wing media clickbait. The political Right is using the same playbook to demonize social media as they use against the...

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Trump would've censored if he could have. The Constitution doesn't let him, but his goal in attempting to overturn the law that limits liability of internet...

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You're oversimplifying it, though. You speak as if it's a straight-forward problem involving a static system with a closed-form solution, and the platform...

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If you've got SVE-friendly workloads, sure. Otherwise, the clockspeed is fairly low and the core count is less than Ampere Altra, not to mention that...

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That's mainly because systems based on 7 nm GPUs hadn't yet been built out. So, it's more a testament to the manufacturing node than ARM vs. GPU....

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Does anyone know if Fujitsu plans to make these CPUs available for use outside of their supercomputers? If not, I think it's even more irrelevant than...

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Nice! Thanks for sharing.


While I don't dispute that complicated control flow can benefit from PGO, my hope was that it would help...

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It sounds like he ran the benchmark once, then used that profiling for PGO. In that case, his results should actually be better than one would see in...

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If you want to get Michael 's attention, you should tag him.

And rather than being so dour, you could simply ask him to rerun the same benchmarks...

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They are, but the set of supported fp16 2-element vector operations (i.e. "packed math") is pretty small. A little bigger than I recalled, but...

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True. I had just been looking at the "packed math" instructions, which have only about a half dozen fp16 opcodes (min, mix, add, mul, and fma)....

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I was waiting to buy a Firefox phone, but they cancelled it before it landed on a hardware spec that I considered good enough. It would be interesting...

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"First half of the year will have new discrete RDNA2 GPUs as well"

Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16407/the-amd-ces-20...

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That's an interesting opinion, but completely at odds with well-established legal precedent. From what I understand, SCoTUS has even ruled that you can't...

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He's just posting a link to AMD's own video. He'd have to get their permission to copy it and re-post it somewhere else, because it's their copyrighted...