Phil Park
@parkbot.bsky.social
Burrito scientist, AMD Infinity Fabric performance/architecture. @philparkbot in the Bad Place. Personal account. He/Him.
📍British Columbia
https://linktr.ee/philpark
📍British Columbia
https://linktr.ee/philpark
My music circle of friends during college called them vinyls. @stumillertime.bsky.social and @borntoulouse.bsky.social can confirm
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
My music circle of friends during college called them vinyls. @stumillertime.bsky.social and @borntoulouse.bsky.social can confirm
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
1) yes, agreed. I do also recall around this time Google was growing like crazy, and they used commodity x86 parts to build their search cluster, which it seems like contributed to this shift
2) what (i had never heard this)
2) what (i had never heard this)
September 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
1) yes, agreed. I do also recall around this time Google was growing like crazy, and they used commodity x86 parts to build their search cluster, which it seems like contributed to this shift
2) what (i had never heard this)
2) what (i had never heard this)
When AMD64 was proposed, Athlon was already in the market and was scaling beyond what Intel believed was possible less than 10 years prior. But by then, Intel had already committed to IA64 with HP
September 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
When AMD64 was proposed, Athlon was already in the market and was scaling beyond what Intel believed was possible less than 10 years prior. But by then, Intel had already committed to IA64 with HP
Folks may not realize that when Intel announced IA64, their flagship part was the OG Pentium - superscalar but in-order. While some in the company didn’t believe CISC could continue improving, Pentium Pro was still in active development and showed that superscalar and out-of-order was possible.
September 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Folks may not realize that when Intel announced IA64, their flagship part was the OG Pentium - superscalar but in-order. While some in the company didn’t believe CISC could continue improving, Pentium Pro was still in active development and showed that superscalar and out-of-order was possible.
A lot of people rightfully complain that x86 is complex and ugly, but this quote from Linus Torvalds on x86-64 vs IA64 was also revealing
![Quote from Linus Torvalds: "[Intel] threw out all the good parts of the x86 because people thought those parts were ugly. They aren't ugly, they're the 'charming oddity' that makes it do well."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4z34kmfgo5tbnutcej4qcaex/bafkreigojq2rlxftj3gqrjlqfrohjxzeh7dacvl3s4u6stpsd3gdvruz5i@jpeg)
September 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A lot of people rightfully complain that x86 is complex and ugly, but this quote from Linus Torvalds on x86-64 vs IA64 was also revealing
One fact I had memory holed goes back to the classic CISC vs RISC debate. My recollection for IA64’s justification was that Intel believed CPUs were getting too complicated and that they wanted a new ISA. In reality it was because they believed CISC could not scale or be competitive with RISC!
![“When the IA64 project was started it was perceived that the performance of RISC machines would outstrip that of [Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC)] machines.
... They felt that they could get higher performance with a [Very Large Instruction Word (VLIW)] architecture than they could with a CISC architecture.” - Dave Cutler, "A History of Modern 64-bit Computing"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4z34kmfgo5tbnutcej4qcaex/bafkreihxzix74fiznebjsabmbd4inh43wdhfa2dcpgoong64qonx2uxzl4@jpeg)
September 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
One fact I had memory holed goes back to the classic CISC vs RISC debate. My recollection for IA64’s justification was that Intel believed CPUs were getting too complicated and that they wanted a new ISA. In reality it was because they believed CISC could not scale or be competitive with RISC!
I was wondering how you exceeded the 500 tab limit on Safari and I see it’s not Safari. Incredible job.
September 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I was wondering how you exceeded the 500 tab limit on Safari and I see it’s not Safari. Incredible job.
I am willing to commit crimes to live closer to an H-Mart
August 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I do miss 20 episode seasons
August 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I do miss 20 episode seasons
The whole series is great. I wish it went on for the full seven seasons. I also enjoyed Prodigy
August 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The whole series is great. I wish it went on for the full seven seasons. I also enjoyed Prodigy