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Not quite as fast. M1 has 8 wide decode, which would be difficult to do with x86 because x86 has variable instruction lengths.
by 58028641 6y ago
Not quite as fast. M1 has 8 wide decode, which would be difficult to do with x86 because x86 has variable instruction lengths.
- ben-schaaf 6y ago> Zen 2 has has 8-wide issue in many places, and Ice Lake moves up to 6-wide. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25258985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25258985