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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (21 children)

Our hardware has its own problems.

We rely way too much on x86 and ia64 architecture, both of which have only two big manufacturers in the world. That's not good because it's almost monopolies.

It would be better to have simpler chipsets that can be produced by more manufacturers worldwide, and especially ones that can be produced by smaller regional manufacturers.

On top of that we shouldn't distribute compiled binaries for the x86 and ia64 chipsets; instead program code should be distributed like .wasm, in a hardware-independent way, and compiled on the target device. That would enable that hardware can use any chipset it wants and there are no software incompatibilities because of it.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

On the high performance compute / GPGPU side the AdaptiveCPP JIT compiler seems very good for cross-platform operation

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What does this do that C# doesn't?

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

GPU stuff and ideally easier parallelism. The same binary could be executed on a GPU from any vendor, any CPU, anything that supports OpenCL, and could maybe even be extended to support FPGAs in the future.

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