Talk:Standard swap
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Modernity[edit]
"Modern" is hopelessly vague, and could contrast Babbage's difference engine against the Antikythera mechanism, not to mention the rapidity with which (currently) modern computers are being succeeded with (more) modern ones. Ideally, we would specify the year and release name of the first relevantly modern CPU, if not the degree to which the standard swap has come to be regarded as obsoleted by the new hardware.
--Jerzy•t 02:35, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Level of abstraction[edit]
The concept is described in terms of the higher-level language source, but segues into the register-level implementation. More needs to be said to expose the assumptions that ensure the stated relation between source coding and hardware events: e.g. that the compiler is aware of the "modern" hardware specs, rather than the hardware executing older software in a default or explicit legacy mode.
--Jerzy•t 02:35, 20 December 2010 (UTC)