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As chips grow more and more complex the ISA matters less and less for performance. Of course it still matters for vendor lock-in (ie Windows only running on X86
by throwaway4good 4y ago
As chips grow more and more complex the ISA matters less and less for performance. Of course it still matters for vendor lock-in (ie Windows only running on X86) and politics (license fees and preventing China from using it).
- pavlov 4y agoWindows runs pretty well on ARM64 these days. They even have emulation for x86 plugins loaded into ARM binaries. All it really needs is Qualcomm to come out with ARM chips that could compete with Apple’s. Of course that’s a tall order…