Paul Monroe

Technology Architect for Capital Markets; Technologist.

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@IanCutress @Andes_Tech Linley literally wrote the book on chips for 30 years, will def take a look at this. The man went from designing PA-RISC to defining how the whole industry thinks about processors. Retired? Sure. Irrelevant? Never. 👑
You’re both in good company!

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

Dear @TfL . What are you doing? Please can you stop cancelling every train on the Elizabeth Line that goes to destinations in the west?

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@BMW if you’re correctly hashing and encrypting my password, why the length and character restrictions? Also - can you explain why my @1Password generated password is simultaneously acceptable and not acceptable?

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@HeathrowAirport unreliable as always. Cannot even open on time. Whenever I travel through Heathrow, I’m impressed to discover new and unpredictable ways of being let down. So embarrassing.

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@adoran2 I'd back you 💯

[Troy Hunt @troyhunt]

This will never get old, and I love that @virginmedia has left it there for our entertainment 😊

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@TheKanter GM was great, but I couldn't stomach YTM being worse (in every way that mattered to me), so swapped to Spotify. Uploading my own music via desktop app was a bit unintuitive/cumbersome, but once set up, it streams to my devices no prob.

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@adoran2 No need for a llama!
(...Alpaca my bags)

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@AmericanExpress Should I infer from this that you are NOT hashing my password? Or that you're vulnerable to injection attacks?
Worrying security policy from a major financial institution...

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

Algorithm texts don’t talk about assorted {stack, branch, other} predictor, cache layout impact, etc. it’s quite depressing how removed from the actual hardware everything is

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@andreif7 @TheRealVeedrac @erikengheim Agree completely. I suspect most analyses out there use your piece as a template. For example, I'm not aware (?) of any other published pieces that have independently measured the ROB depth as ~630 (nice tool @TheRealVeedrac).

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@andreif7 *As @JosephStPaul already mentioned.
@andreif7 I think a lot of people quote your ~630-deep ROB measurement using Veedrac's microarchitecturometer, great work on that piece, btw.

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@andreif7 Possibly one Aakash Jani - he authored a Microprocessor Report article on the M1 in January.

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@adoran2 I find Douglas Adams' tangents and descriptions to be equally - if not more cynically - wonderful:

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@IanCutress Data center side has a lot of inertia, but that cuts both ways. You'd be surprised (and probably a little worried, frankly) how often you see Opteron's still running enterprise workloads.
Very much looking forward to Milan.

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@IanCutress I hear you, brother... 😕

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@dcominottim @TheKanter Yeah, that's been my experience too. You'd think the iOS updates would be more reliable than the windows ones, but that's definitely not been my experience. iPad Pro resets: 2. Windows 10 resets: 0.

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@IanCutress Did IBM design the floorplan?

(https://t.co/kD40YBqSkg)

[Paul Monroe @marvelouspaul]

@IanCutress @Qualcomm Happens to me all the time. Always love the irony that massive digital leaders about to showcase digital innovation are manually transposing data! Fits