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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:34:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:29:31 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> CPU's that are hyper close to the memory is good wrt locality. However,
> the programming for it might turn some programmers off. NUMA like for
> sure.

I’m pretty sure those multi-million-node Linux supers that fill the top of 
the Top500 list have a NUMA-style memory-addressing model.