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And beneath that CISC instruction set is a RISC core and a translation layer. The fact that the instruction set is CISC has more to do with backwards compatibil
by nzmsv 17y ago
And beneath that CISC instruction set is a RISC core and a translation layer. The fact that the instruction set is CISC has more to do with backwards compatibility (hello, Windows) than an actual advantage of CISC.
- ssp 17y agoIt also has to do with CISC code being more compact. With memory getting slower and slower relative to the CPU, this is increasingly an (overlooked) advantage. Maybe at some point CPUs will do automatic code decompression in hardware.