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IsTom ◴[] No.45092345[source]
> On the software side, the system uses either a JIT compiler, static compiler, or binary instrumentation to split a single-threaded program into code segments to assign different blocks to different cores. It injects special instructions for flow control, register passing, and sync behavior, enabling the hardware to maintain execution integrity.

Itanium is back again?

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1. hulitu ◴[] No.45094360[source]
> Itanium is back again?

Itanium was also the trojan horse against competing architectures. From that POV, it succeeded.