A troll thread?
Instead of thinking of the possibilities and engineering around the flaws, the mod says I'm trolling.
I wouldn't think a forum like this would be so small minded but instead of trying to overcome big challenges people want to cower in fear.
Enjoy the fruits for paying more for...
you're missing the point where the numerous loads and stores to get this data into the cpu registers. Not only that but have you actually tried to write a SIMD program? SIMD hasn't taken off because most developers do not know how to reorganize their programs so that they can take advantage of...
I never thought that I'd hear people say calm down you're thinking too big but hey.
Power consumption would be high, sure but complexity goes way down. Complexity goes way down because instead of a bunch of load/ store, check overflow, etc for FPU you can do 2 load/store for up to 512 bits in...
Lots of great info at the top to dig into but I didn't know that before so I will take my time on that.
I know that FPU is just integer math in the end. That's why I say why not have a sufficiently large ALU say an ALU that can handle 2x 1024 bit numbers; if you are doing floating point that...
Any float, double, long can be mapped to an integer value if given enough bits.
Sure such large ALU will require more power but the FPU on most CPU use 4x the power of the integer part plus a whole lot of additional complexity.
For reduction in complexity alone, I think this could be a worth...
I've been thinking about CPU architecture.
Why wouldn't we get rid of the FPU and use larger ALU for example 532 bit ALU that can basically get rid of FPU and do pure integer math.
Do we really need more than 512 bits?
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