asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-07-28#1925256 << btw found shortly after posting that the 1-slot cache is not functional in the given patch. might fix, at some pt, but currently finding difficult to justify putting moar sweat into beating of the dead horse☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if martians were to parachute down a crate of clean cpu, turns out retargeting , baking linux, etc. takes weeks, not yrs. but martians prolly won't.
asciilifeform: ( to novel -- but reasonably 'boring', that is, von neumann, arch )
asciilifeform: fwiw i found that retargeting gcc is not actually very hard
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: arm per se is a pretty sad thing. almost as if someone sat down an' 'let's have a contest, can anyone come up with even uglier arch than x86'
asciilifeform: 'we ported tmsr to tmsr-cpu, nao eat shit, idjits'
asciilifeform: asciilifeform thought that could escape from the yoke of 'the mercy of' cpu vendors, but turns out not so easy
asciilifeform: rk co. seems to not be doing so hot in market. is, near as i can tell, being price-squeezed by the even cheaper (but for our application useless, as they dun boot bloblessly) arm clones
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: per vendor's manual ( and interestingly HAD TO DUST IT OFF, there are ~0 useful sources on net, errybody wants to talk about intel's c++ 'intrinsics' lib re sse) they're supposed to operate in parallel.
asciilifeform: ended up that yes needs, simply to match the performance of ~orig~ genesis ver.
asciilifeform: orig. thought, like idjit, that it wouldn't even need the cache from the 2nd patch
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: see piece. (it's short.)
asciilifeform: ( by breaking binary compat. e.g. current microshit won't even boot w/out sse3 , iirc )
asciilifeform: presently asciilifeform suspects that 'sseism' was a straight 'upgrade scam', i.e. trick to make folx throw out old irons when really 0 justification
asciilifeform: 'save patient's ear by cutting out eye'
asciilifeform: diana_coman: the extra coad req'd to keep the sseism regs properly filled, entirely wipes out whatever cost saved by using the parallel 16byte searcher.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i always suspected that 'fancy' x86 instrs were a sham (i.e. take just about as long, cuz really microcoded, as the classical alternative )
asciilifeform: dorion: it's not there against mp_en_viaje & co., either, folx with serious money have ~0 problem moving it. it's there against 'engineer saves 100k and escapes from gulag to live rest of his days without working for reich' etc.
asciilifeform: dorion: most usaschwitz inmates never come close to rubbing against this fence, cuz elementarily 0 money
asciilifeform: dorion: bush-II amended. exact magic # was made seekrit, and changes periodically, and to attempt to determine it is itself considered criminal
asciilifeform: diana_coman: when loading up for last coupla trips to outside of gulag, found that can withdraw nomoar than 600 (us) iirc per diem
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i'd expect. but process for baking these in usa is ~same as to get benjies
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i.e. figures of 5+ zeroes
asciilifeform: ( what ~did~ at one pt step on, was, worked in a thing that paid -- by paper cheque -- quarterly, and depositing these took ~month, as the bank monkeys 'scheduled calls' with gestapo to Properly Register the 'suspicious' )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: reportedly, if you do it in mp_en_viaje-grade qtys , will find that acct locked. but i have not personally stepped, of yet, on this mine
asciilifeform: converting zek zone electro-scrip to physical money remains tricky☟︎
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: iirc there is to this day an interesting diff : in nato jets, the 'you will soon [fly into ground/eat rocket/flame out engine] !' taped voice in cockpit, is of whiny chix; but in ru jets, man's voice
