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Instruction complexities can be used to save bandwidth/delay (and related energy consumption) at the cost of decoder size. Communication limitations are increas
by darkmighty 7y ago
Instruction complexities can be used to save bandwidth/delay (and related energy consumption) at the cost of decoder size. Communication limitations are increasingly dominant in processors afaik; so the analysis is not so simple as to decoder size either.
- jabl 7y agoCompressed RISC ISA's (e.g. RISC-V C extension) achieve density comparable to x86, with a much simpler decoder.