Jonathan Blow
On The Metal
Speculative Execution and the Cell Processor
The consumer market drives more broad compute innovations than I think anyone really wants to talk about. The cell was an attempt to say okay for what we're paying to do all this stuff you could have a number of like much faster much tighter cores simpler cores simpler they'd have their own memory so they don't spend a lot of time waiting on memory which is one of the reasons that you need speculative execution for the memory wall right? So it's particularly interesting about how as someone who sits in that broader market how you use these underlying compute resources so you use the cell or you that you wereYeah that's such an interesting kind of experiment that was performed yeahSo the cell processor we should probably talk
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