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It seems to me people are ignoring that the C stands for Complexity. What's reduced is Complexity of the instruction set, not the size of it (or even the instr
by FullyFunctional 6y ago
It seems to me people are ignoring that the C stands for Complexity. What's reduced is Complexity of the instruction set, not the size of it (or even the instructions themselves). In the context of the coinage of the term, they almost certainly could have called it "microcode-free ISA", but it wouldn't have sounded as cool.
- mavhc 6y agoDoesn't the C stand for Computer?
- FullyFunctional 6y agoOops I'm wrong about the name but not about the spirit. This is the original paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/641914.641917 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/641914.641917
- andromeduck 6y agoIs ARM even microcode free these days?
- arthurcolle 6y agoI dont think so