12:38:18
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<KipIngram>
So I'm watching a presentation Chuck made at a Strange Loop conference a few years ago, and picked up something about the GA-144 I hadn't realized. He said that the return stack was "common to all of the cores." How does that work exactly? The cores have their own little independent RAMs - how can the thing work without each core having its own return stack?
13:39:39
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<kpn>
If you mean the talk from 2011, and 14 years can be considered "few", my guess is that he misspoke.
13:53:45
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<crc>
KipIngram: the documentation I have for the GA-144 indicates 8 items on the return stack, per core
15:34:33
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<KipIngram>
Ok. He must have just misspoken, then, because that just didn't make any sense. Thanks.
15:34:56
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<KipIngram>
kpn: Yes, I was looking at the YouTube posting data, which was four years ago. I noticed later that the presentation itself was a lot older.
15:45:39
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<xentrac>
no, each core has its own return stack
15:46:28
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<xentrac>
I mean I don't have a GA144 but I'm pretty sure that's the case
21:13:30
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<veltas>
"common to all the cores" could be interpreted in multiple ways
21:13:37
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<veltas>
Like e.g. "if then"
23:19:09
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<KipIngram>
xentrac: I just really can't see a way it could be any other way; it just doesn't make sense. I'm 99% sure he said it though. I'll go back later and find it again, just to be sure. But people do have slips like that, so no biggie.
23:19:50
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<KipIngram>
I really wonder what the audience reaction to that talk was. Chuck just operates at such a WILDLY different level from the typical folks I've seen doing Strange Loop talks.
23:34:53
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<xentrac>
KipIngram: I'm sure he just meant that the cores are alike in that they all have a return stack