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Questions about the organization and design of computer hardware.

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How can I academically say that 'one computer is slower than the other'?

You probably need to take a set of programs, compiled and run on the various platforms and cite a "speedup" number for one versus the other for each program. You could give a simplistic MIPS number (t …
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Is a universal assembly language for all computers possible?

As noted, LLVM is the closest thing to this so far. A big barrier to a really universal language is going to be fundamental differences related to implicit tradeoffs: concurrency, memory use, through …
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