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by joe563323 3392 days ago
Just a dumb question. Will it affect the instruction set of the CPU. Does the programming change fundamentally with async cpu's.
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nine_k 3392 days ago
Modern x86 with its out of order execution is already pretty "async". Little changed for programmers, except those writing very low-level code, or compilers.
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joe563323 3390 days ago
Does this mean not all instructions are treated equal ? Some instructions need to make an extra check before or after the execution OR some instructions will be deprecated and new instructions need to be added ?
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regularfry 3392 days ago
No. One of the projects that was doing the rounds when I heard about this stuff was Amulet: an async ARM core. Same instruction set.
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