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You mention the key part here—it was designed for compilers writing assembly, not people writing assembly. And more importantly, future compilers, not the tech
by sroussey 4y ago
You mention the key part here—it was designed for compilers writing assembly, not people writing assembly.
And more importantly, future compilers, not the tech they had at the time.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoThis is probably the most important factor in the RISC revolution. The printed size of assembly doesn't matter any more (only the number of bytes), and neither does readability.