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This blog is unambiguously pro-Power ISA, not least because I’m a long-time PowerPC bigot to start with, but also I think OpenPOWER — POWER9 specifically — is currently the best option for a practical yet truly open computing platform: competitive … Read more
Just in case we needed any more reassurance we made the right move with OpenPOWER: Phoronix is reporting that Intel is about to get even more restrictive with firmware. For as much flak as Intel (deservedly) takes over the Intel … Read more
Yeah, so about that OpenPOWER Minimum Viable Product JavaScript JIT for Firefox. This happened (all timings from an unoptimized debug build on my dual-8 Talos II with -j24): % ./mach jstests –args “–no-ion –no-baseline –blinterp-eager –regexp-warmup-threshold=0” -F -j24 [43359| 0| … Read more
AnandTech has a great analysis of IBM’s new z/Architecture mainframe processor Telum, the successor to z15 (so you could consider it the “z16” if you like) scheduled for 2022. The most noteworthy part of that article is Telum’s unusual approach … Read more