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Its a very small % of die space. Hardly any power compared to the rest of the CPU. [Edit:] I got deja vu, searched my comment history, and found we were still
by Andys 7y ago
Its a very small % of die space. Hardly any power compared to the rest of the CPU.
[Edit:] I got deja vu, searched my comment history, and found we were still harping on about this exact same crap 9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2061500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2061500
Even on 32nm, instruction decoding was a tiny % of die space!
- acqq 7y ago> Even on 32nm, instruction decoding was a tiny % of die space! Exactly that. Looking what the actual problems with the processors that tried to be better than x86-line were, the good or bad instruction "decoding" was certainly not what made them worse than x86-line, at the end.