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Well, modern x86 "CISC" implementations are basically RISC internally with a translation layer on top of it.
by deepnotderp 9y ago
Well, modern x86 "CISC" implementations are basically RISC internally with a translation layer on top of it.
- Koshkin 9y agoI don't think this matters, as long as the internals are completely inaccessible to a programmer. In other words, what happens inside is not what is usually called "architecture" (which is part of the definition of what RISC is).