mopo2000·11 anni fa·discussRISC kept up longer, MIPS just dropped early. Alpha and PowerPC kept up longest. In fact even now POWER8 beats x86.
mopo2000·12 anni fa·discussSimd, speculative execution, caches and virtualization in cpus date back to the 60s. See IBM Stretch, Illiac, CP/CMS etc. See eg http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/stretch.html
mopo2000·12 anni fa·discussfanotify is super limited, and not useful for this app. It's from 2009, but has seen little use.