Post #1948950
2026-01-09 19:21 UTC
Glancing through @paulmckrcu's perfbook, it occurs to me that the strength/weakness of a CPU architecture's memory model is in most cases reasonably approximated lexically.
How does SPARC compare to Itanium? Well, I comes before S, so ia64 is the weaker of the two.
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@zev@honk.bewilderbeest.net 2026-01-09 19:27
Assuming a causal relationship (naturally), the obvious question is its direction -- nominative determinism or merely descriptivism?