Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

On 9/21/2024 1:24 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:54:36 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
 

I had this crazy idea of putting cpus right on the ram.

 Not so crazy. I can remember things like this being discussed back in the
1980s. I think the Transputer had a similar idea.
 What seems to have happened since is that individual CPUs are being
matched up with more and more RAM.

CPU's that are hyper close to the memory is good wrt locality. However, the programming for it might turn some programmers off. NUMA like for sure. Some "people" say if its not sequentially consistent, its crap. I always wondered if they were trolling a bit. Anyway... This brings up old memories about people saying that membars are for crazy people! ;^o