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It's such a good talk. There's even the point where he almost says "we're sorry" regarding Pentium 4, at the time where a lot of people still believed Intel's marketing that it's "the best." I understood him, as the application I worked on at the time was significantly faster on the Pentium M than on the Pentium 4.



I also love the bit about the floating point divide non-optimisation, and how it turned into a success.




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