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We’d all try to explain to the hardware architects who believed that it would just take a recompile that it wasn’t quite that easy and sure, although multi-threading was pretty well understood by programmers, you still needed something for the vector unit and in all honesty, for that there was nothing. The usual response was a few head nods with slightly glazed eyes—quite a contrast to the panic that many software folks were starting to experience.
In general, the Intel hardware architects knew remarkably little about programming (that Forsyth fellow notwithstanding), and I’m sure that guy really believed that. (To be fair, I don’t know much about actually doing HW architecture, though I guess I’m not out telling the hardware architects bogus things about how best to implement a branch predictor.)
Y'a pas que chez Intel que c'est comme ca ^_^