We cannot go back to deterministic sequential CPUs. The implication is that the only sustainable response to such problems is going to fundamentally change the kinds of systems programming languages we use. Pipelining, speculative execution etc. will become language features.
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This set of insights is somewhat embarrassing to me because I am one of the stupid hicks that were still caught in the delusion that C maps to the conceptually unchanged hardware of our childhood, which now contains a bunch of additional heuristics and clever engineering tweaks.
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