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> In my opinion, having a single ISA breeds lazyness, and causes shortcuts to be made in programming. Aren't you aware that lazyness is one of the great virtue
by gridlockd 7y ago
> In my opinion, having a single ISA breeds lazyness, and causes shortcuts to be made in programming.
Aren't you aware that lazyness is one of the great virtues of a programmer?
> Then 64-bit came along and loads of software wouldn't compile properly without fixing things like assumptions of integer size, etc.
Yes, now you just write code with the assumption that a word is 4 or 8 bytes, you don't concern yourself with the case where the word is four triganic nibbles long.