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gpderetta on June 4, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Architecture

If a load is intrinsically pointer chasing (as it is the case for a lot of non-compute software), there isn't much an optimizer can do. That's true even for native code.

dumbo-octopus on June 4, 2024 [–]

That may be the case, what I’m contesting is this distinction made between JS/Python and other languages.

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