The amount of silicon legacy code takes up literally decreases non-linearly with each process shrink. The amount of baggage x86 is carrying around now days lon

The amount of silicon legacy code takes up literally decreases non-linearly with each process shrink. The amount of baggage x86 is carrying around now days long ago shrunk to the point of not mattering. And sure, if some ancient compiler spits out some opcode that Intel long ago stopped optimizing, it may take 10x the clock cycles it used to take back in the days of 386s, it is still going to run 100x faster at the end of the day. > We don't yet consider ARM CISC, right? I think ARM64 was an attempt to prevent that from happening! I haven't looked into it at all so I am not sure how successful they were. But it was starting to get pretty close there for awhile.