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honey the codewitch wrote: It's about damned time they standardized a CPU architecture in a practical way that could be leveraged across the tech industry. Keep dreaming! It has happened! Look at the x86 desktop architecture. Many years earlier, it was the IBM 360 architecture. For smartphones, the ARM architecture has been a de facto standard CPU architecture for quite a few years.
The problem is that lots of developers discover that there is something new, which makes them reject the estabished, accepted, respected and honored standards - they want to throw them out. Look at yourself: What makes you think that ARM is not "a CPU architecture that could be leveraged across the tech industry"? You have found that RISC V has some advantages that makes it a better alternative. If we switch horses from ARM to RISC V, it won't take long before someone come up with yet another architecture that has advantages over the RISC V.
Over the years, I have lost all kinds of trust in "Strangler jeans: One size fits all!" You must be prepared to handle alternate solutions. Monoculture is never good. (My t-shirt that states "Stereotypes are real time savers" is sort of true, but obviously ironic.)
So make yourself a hardware abstraction layer, and implement that on all the different CPUs that you come to work on.
(Regarding RISC V: I 'discovered' it in my last job. The company makes IoT chips externally looking as two core ARM chips. Under the cover, there are several other cores, managing various parts of the hardware asynchronously with the two main ARM chips. One of these 'secret' cores is a RISC V.)
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https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/risc-v[^]
"At the heart of the differences between ARM and RISC-V is the matter of closed and open-source hardware. ARM is closed source whereas RISC-V is open source."
Big delta
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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It’s conspicuous when people won’t work (8)
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I see what you did there!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Striking ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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That's what I got!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yep... YAUM
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It's unlikely that C# is going to get discriminated unions anytime soon.
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Do you mean like the RMT and Postal Workers?
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Discriminated Unions[^] - it'd be handy, I think.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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#Worldle #349 3/6 (100%)
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜↙️
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜↘️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
had to use map did not know it was a country
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 566 4/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 566 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
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Wordle 566 4/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
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Wordle 566 5/6
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Wordle 566 4/6
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟨⬜🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 566 4/6
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Wordle 566 X/6*
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🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩
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Wordle 566 5/6
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hard one
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Check out this error that I just got in XCode when I attempted to preview the design layout[^].
It says, "Timed out waiting for a thunk to build..."
Thunk - Wikipedia[^]
I hadn't heard of thunk since old Windows API programming.
But now you can do your thunking on your Mac too.
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raddevus wrote: I hadn't heard of thunk since old Windows API programming.
Same-ish. Thunking is the technique MS used to make Win32s[^] work. However, the term made a comeback in the JavaScript ecosystem with libraries such as Redux Thunk[^].
True to JavaScript fashion though, we dumbed down the concept a bit. But, at one point in time it was useful for distributed web calls. These days there are better techniques though.
If you read the definition on the link for Redux Thunk, for instance, you'll notice some ambiguity between that and just using a callback. But hey, at least the term made a comeback-ish.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 6-Jan-23 12:14pm.
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In my FreeRTOS thread pack library, I create a thunk for thread entry points to change the behavior of threads so they
A) start in the suspended state
B) kill themselves on exit rather than crashing
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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back in the day routines called dally which stalled processes so they could sync with slower ones (like the line plotter).
all that went away with newer software and hardware for controlling parallel processes. VAX days.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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That's cool to know.
Jeremy Falcon
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