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Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

CHAPTER

How Do We Accelerate Clocks?

Denard scaling is beginning to break down in 2003 right we are still because the power five gigahertz part is kind of in there somewhere. The Xbox 360 which was the competitor console for that generation didn't do that but they said like look instead of one fancy you know out of order core we're gonna have three in order cores and you could have three cores Right what right how could that possibly be bad right? Amdall's law is why that's bad for both systemsRight so something that would happen on the cell processor is just like okay first of all it's actually a non-trivial problem to try to factor a program into these little little tiny pieces that will

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