Recent content by Dijky

I think I have the same problem with VLC in full screen playback right now. Sometimes all screens go black, the sound keeps playing, and when the displays come back after a few seconds the VLC full screen is transparent (seeing W10 task bar and background image) until I exit full screen and get...

Another key aspect is that not only the consumer doesn't know, but the CPU's power management doesn't know either. I don't know what the processor may be able to do to protect itself when exceeding stock configuration, but it definitely can't do that if it is not aware of it. For example...

Where did you get that from? Anyway, it's true that silicon ICs will degrade over time. That applies to varying extents at all voltage/power/temperature levels across all manufacturers. The typical effect is that an IC will gradually requiring higher voltage to achieve a certain frequency, and...

I'm aware of the options that existed, but welcome the standardization nonetheless. The current gcc/libstdc++ implementation of the Parallelism TS actually uses TBB as the backend, and clang/libc++ doesn't implement it yet. Synchronous communication, I should have said. It takes a relatively...

Of course there are. But the great lengths which CPU designers have gone to exploit ILP is a testament to how much parallelity there is in singlethreaded code. These techniques exploit the opportunity to do stuff in parallel that doesn't need to run sequentially. They do it at a smaller scale...

I think the mainstream market is actually doing pretty well within its technical limitations (Amdahl's Law). Operating systems are actually using multiple threads. in that most kernels do handle interrupts and system call on every core/hardware thread without a global lock (for most operations)...