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oso2k on Dec 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hidden Costs of Memory Allocation

So a Mill CPU can never do shared-memory process parallelization? Two or more processes accessing the same memory could be a hazard. Seems like it would suffer the same issue IA-64 has with parallelism. However, the conveyor belt analogy simplifies register spilling & related issues.

adwn on Dec 11, 2014 | [–]

> So a Mill CPU can never do shared-memory process parallelization?

Why not? The caches will still be coherent.

crest on Dec 11, 2014 | [–]

Only if you are crazy enough to share stacks in which case you deserve what you get.

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