NOTATIO

Having 64-bit words usually gives some increase in bandwidth for the same clock speeds. Of course, I worked for Cray for some years so some of the byte or bit- addressable stuff may not speed up. The bus widths are usually twice as wide. This means that scalar accesses for instructions are faster. I...

Some people fail to realize that neither consonance nor dissonance is the point of a piece. The varying contrast between the two is important. In a mild sense, one does not use consonance for its own sake but to oppose dissonance. Of course, consonance and dissonance are fuzzy concepts but the core ...