[r0bbbo]

For someone just starting to learn about computer architecture at a low level (rather embarrassing for someone who's been in the industry for over a decade), this is a really interesting read, and it's helping concepts like pipelining and caching to gel.

[flatiron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAkj32VPcUE

[als0]

Hardware used to be so exotic!

[msla]

> Hardware used to be so exotic!

It might circle back around to being exotic again, if FPGAs take off and more work is done on highly-specialized task-specific hardware, as opposed to building the fastest general-purpose chips you can and beating problems to death with sheer speed.

[pjmlp]

It still is, specially when we spend time playing with what our GPUs allow for nowadays.

My main use for C and C++ are actually their shading language derived dialects.