x86 is to[o] complex If you're going to criticize CISC architectures I would have done it before Intel moved to optimized RISC microcode in implementation. Arg

x86 is to[o] complex If you're going to criticize CISC architectures I would have done it before Intel moved to optimized RISC microcode in implementation. Arguably the greatest advancement in CPU technologies in the past couple years was the addition of hardware virtualization extensions to fulfill the Goldberg requirements. That said, I am biased because I wrote the Intel hardware virtualization layer for an HPC VMM.