> they're a bit of an architectural nightmare for everyone doing any more than the simplest CPUs, they make every instruction potentially have dependencies or a

> they're a bit of an architectural nightmare for everyone doing any more than the simplest CPUs, they make every instruction potentially have dependencies or anti-dependencies with every other It's doesn't have to be _that_ bad. As long as condition flags are all written at once (or are essentially banked like PowerPC) the dependency issue can go away because they're renamed and their results aren't dependent on previous data. Now, of course, instructions that only update some condition flags and preserve others are the devil.