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@GDCPresoReviews @zeux FWIW even Zen 4 at 320-entry retire queue is quite moderate by current big-core standards, Apple M1 is 600+ instructions in retire queue https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/firestorm.html, Intel Skymont (which is an "E-core", i.e. the smaller ones!) is >400 https://chipsandcheese.com/p/skymont-intels-e-cores-reach-for-the-sky

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GDC Presentation Reviews 1d ago

GDC 2016: "Taming the Jaguar: x86 Optimization at Insomniac Games" by Andreas Fredriksson (@deplinenoise) of Insomniac Games https://gdcvault.com/play/1023340/Taming-the-Jaguar-x86-Optimization

I thought this was really good, because it discussed CPU microarchitecture in an understandable way.

The first section was about the frontend of the chip, which is the part that fetches instructions. The Jaguar can fetch 2 instructions per cycle, which can actually be a bottleneck if you're doing a bunch of quick math on registers.

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Taming the Jaguar: x86 Optimization at Insomniac Games

In this session the low-level optimizations in the AMD Jaguar CPU used in PS4 and XBOX ONE will be analyzed. Optimizing for the out of order Jaguar CPU is very different from previous console CPUs, and in this session a few key optimization...

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siriusfox 📡⇄🚀⇆🛰️14h ago

@serriadh yep. The three months of being a baby typist again was not fun in the process. It’s a blast in retrospect. The only reason I picked it up was a friend switched full time and I was sick of being unable to type on his keyboard.

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Going to take some practice time before this becomes a keyboard I use at work.

siriusfox 📡⇄🚀⇆🛰️1d ago

Learning Dvorak was one of the coolest most mind-fuck things I ever did. It broke me when I learned it, and it took a long time to build my typing speed back up in both it and QWERTY.

Fast forward to today, and having been largely using QWERTY for the last decade. I'm trying out a dactyl keyboard to ease some hand pain, and my brain keeps slipping into Dvorak because the keyboard just feels different.

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#zigday was fun.

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Terence Eden 2d ago

🆕 blog! “I'm OK being left behind, thanks!”

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That struck me as a bizarre sentiment.…

I'm OK being left behind, thanks!

Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. "You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered. That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going…

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The King of Seasons

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The King of Seasons

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Eric Lengyel 5d ago

New blog post: A Decade of Slug
This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain.
https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html

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