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0 pointscesarb11y ago0 comments

To be fair, that email is from 2007. Did x86 processors have nested page tables back then? If not, he might have been complaining about that.

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sudowhodoido11y ago· 2 in thread

No they didn't have SLAT/EPT then. That came in with the i-series processors. The processors were knee deep in errata and buggy as hell.

Intel don't do a good job of design or engineering really. That's going to sting, I know.

I'd love to see 64 bit SPARC make a comeback TBH. Proper hardware contexts/threads, more registers, a decent MMU etc.

Its called arm64... the first new modern RISC design for a long time.

Good point! I'd completely forgotten about arm64.

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