On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 at 14:41, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On the hardware end, the Mill guys were pointing out years ago that
> register renaming is a big power bottleneck in modern processors;
LOL.
The Mill guys took the arguments from the Itanium people, and turned
the crazy up to 11, with "the belt" and seemingly trying to do a
dataflow machine but not worrying over-much about memory accesses etc.
The whole "we'll deal with it in the compiler" is crazy talk.
In other words, I'll believe it when I see it. And I doubt we'll ever see it.
Linus
