I love how "word" is a specific computer science term that means some data the bit-width of the processor.
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
anyway this whole thread is a subtweet of my debugger because I set a hardware breakpoint on a 32bit word in memory only to have my debugger never fail because this code was writing 16-bit words and a 32-bit word memory breakpoint doesn't fire if you do a 16-bit write
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@foone OWORD comes up in SIMD
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@endrift yeah my senior project at uni involved stuffing an entire image comparison matrix in one!
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@foone this feels very Culture Mind-coded
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@chamlis I too am close to gods, and on the far side.
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@foone
There used to be arguments, regarding software portability, over the assertion that all the world's a VAX.
Microsoft has long since resolved the issue. All the world's an 8088. Maybe an 8086 with a 64-bit extended ISA, but still just an overgrown 8088. -
@brouhaha I'd argue that all-the-worlds-a-386, not an 8088, but I see what you mean
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@foone let's not forget the elusive TBYTE (aka TWORD on nasm)
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@cvtsi2sd 24 bits?
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@foone 80 bits (Ten Bytes); used to load/store the x87 extended precision long double values, as in
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@cvtsi2sd wait the T is Ten? TenByte and TenWord?
but it's not Ten Word, NASM. that's 20 bytes...
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[Moved to @[email protected]] Linareplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@[email protected] does VFLIW stand for "Very Fat & Long Instruction Word"
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to [Moved to @[email protected]] Lina last edited by
@lina Close. Think more like BFG
