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>for us to pretend x86 is fast. "Instruction sets" are not fast, the implementations are. Also AMD has a nice chunk of marketshare which will only get bigger o
by mariusmg 10y ago
>for us to pretend x86 is fast.
"Instruction sets" are not fast, the implementations are. Also AMD has a nice chunk of marketshare which will only get bigger once Zen is out.
- astrange 10y agoInstruction sets can affect the speed of the decoder hardware, and how many instructions fit in the L1 cache, to speed up jumping around reading them from memory. Getting more register names in x86-64 was a huge boost too.