No Such Thing as a General- Purpose Processor.

The article examines the argument that there is no such thing as a truly general-purpose processor and that the belief in such a device is harmful. Topics discussed include the specific category of workloads that the devices are optimized for and what those optimizations are, requirements for runnin...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 12; pp. 44 - 49
Autor principal: CHISNALL, DAVID
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2014
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