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		yawaramin on March 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How web bloat impacts users with slow devices > ...which is a long standing point of academic contention. What contention? If anything, Luu is being rather generous–Knuth was just whining that the decades-long free lunch program was being cancelled.

moonchild on March 17, 2024 [–]

VLIW (Itanium is a VLIW arch) is what's contentious, not multiprocessing.

yawaramin on March 17, 2024 | [–]

OK I missed that. Thanks. But it looks like Itanium was only tangential to this discussion, in that Knuth thinks multicore programming may be an even worse mistake than Itanium.

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