Who gives a shit? Computers are cheap, programmers are expensive. You're probably deploying onto Amazon anyways, so don't kid yourself.
In the vast majority of cases, it doesn't help your average coder one bit to know about whether or not a particular type of shift on their platform is arithmetic or logical, or how their cache is structured (again, running in a VM, lolzors).
There are cases where it matters--and surprise surprise, most of us don't work in those fields.
In the vast majority of cases, it doesn't help your average coder one bit to know about whether or not a particular type of shift on their platform is arithmetic or logical, or how their cache is structured (again, running in a VM, lolzors).
There are cases where it matters--and surprise surprise, most of us don't work in those fields.