I'm out of my league here but I've seen references to 8 bit cores that can run at a couple of giga instructions a second. It's hard to understate the performanc

I'm out of my league here but I've seen references to 8 bit cores that can run at a couple of giga instructions a second. It's hard to understate the performance vs power cores like that are cable of. Also sub nanosecond interrupt latency. Think a small coprocessor with local memory that's pulling commands out of a queue and managing an io controller. Couple of wins, lower power consumption, fewer context switches, and cache pressure.