Pal-Kristian Engstad wrote:
> 
> ... I want to have the capability to make
> the code even better. To do that, one needs to be able to make use of
> the hardware, i.e. get down to the bare bones of your platform. 
> ...

Isn't this fairly impossible for an applications programmer programming
the popular modern computers?  Don't these machines implement their
features through low-level virtual machines?  Re-order and rewrite
instructions?  Speculatively branch?  Execute sequential instructions
in parallel? Have hierarchical memory caches that they manage
themselves,
impervious to the desires of the programmer?  Etc, etc, etc?


Al
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