Tag: GNU Compiler Collection
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Which bit of a 4k page does your program use?
This follows on from the previous post – here are the plots. These are based on a run of the PARSEC benchmark suite x264 program – encoding 32 frames of video using 18 threads – 16 worker threads: the plots show how often each 16 byte “line” is used – whether as an instruction is…
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“One of the finest engineers of the open source movement”
If one were ever to dare to apply this to Richard Stallman, one could expect to be cast into the outer darkness. Whatever else he is, Stallman is nothing to do with “the open source movement” – which he rejects as a capitulation to corporate interests that seek to destroy free software. Stallman is, though,…
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