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The Mill CPU Architecture - the Belt (2 of 13)

Mill Computing, Inc. · lecture · Watch on YouTube

Computer architecture & CPUs

What it is

The second talk in the Mill CPU series by Mill Computing, covering the Belt, the Mill's operand-passing model that replaces general registers. It explains the cost of register renaming in conventional wide CPUs and how the Belt reaches high instruction-level parallelism.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to the Mill talks as an excellent, deep look at an unconventional CPU design, especially in threads on registers and instruction sets.

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “the Mill was described in an excellent series of talks”

    Excellent talk series on temporal addressing and the belt.

    wood_spirit, 2023-12 · Recommendation · in “Clockhands: Rename-Free Instruction Set Architecture for Out-of-Order Processors”

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Topics: mill cpu, belt, register renaming, instruction set, computer architecture

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