> The whole RISC philosophy was a huge mistake. Yes, x86 instructions do not map well to transistors, and they have to be unpacked into uops to be executed. Th

> The whole RISC philosophy was a huge mistake. Yes, x86 instructions do not map well to transistors, and they have to be unpacked into uops to be executed. The RISC philosophy wasn't a mistake. Our architectures have just become more sophisticated so that we don't have to make a binary choice. The hybrid is good. The internal uops get the pipelining advantages of RISC, while we get the encoding compression of a CISC instruction set.