2025-09-02 12:38:18 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? 2025-09-02 13:39:39 If you mean the talk from 2011, and 14 years can be considered "few", my guess is that he misspoke. 2025-09-02 13:53:45 KipIngram: the documentation I have for the GA-144 indicates 8 items on the return stack, per core 2025-09-02 15:34:33 Ok. He must have just misspoken, then, because that just didn't make any sense. Thanks. 2025-09-02 15:34:56 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. 2025-09-02 15:45:39 no, each core has its own return stack 2025-09-02 15:46:28 I mean I don't have a GA144 but I'm pretty sure that's the case 2025-09-02 21:13:30 "common to all the cores" could be interpreted in multiple ways 2025-09-02 21:13:37 Like e.g. "if then" 2025-09-02 23:19:09 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. 2025-09-02 23:19:50 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. 2025-09-02 23:34:53 KipIngram: I'm sure he just meant that the cores are alike in that they all have a return stack