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malkia on May 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: BareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computer...

And then an FPGA guy walks in a bar and...

chrisjsmith on May 27, 2011 [–]

There I upvoted you. Perfectly valid comment.

FPGAs can be programmed to give the answer in the time it takes the gates to propagate which is usually damn quick. None of these "cycles" things that CPUs use up.

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