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What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?
My mental model of CPUs is stuck in the 1980s: basically boxes that do arithmetic, logic, bit twiddling and shifting, and loading and storing things in memory. I'm vaguely aware of various newer developments like vector instructions (SIMD) and the idea that newer CPUs have support for virtualization (though I have no…
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Systems & PerformanceHardware & Electronics2015
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jan 12, 2015 | What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers? by StylifyYourBlog | 305 | 71 |
| Apr 20, 2022 | What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (2015) by snvzz | 252 | 107 |
| Aug 23, 2015 | What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers? by AndrewDucker | 231 | 68 |
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