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Isn’t microcode used in today’s CPUs all the time? Or is this different meaning of microcode?
by IgorPartola 3y ago
Isn’t microcode used in today’s CPUs all the time? Or is this different meaning of microcode?
- andai 3y agoI would guess they used to use it because hardware was very expensive, and now they use it because performance is very cheap.
- LoganDark 3y agoI think now they use it because they can implement the bajillion x86 instructions in terms of much simpler and more efficient micro-ops, without implementing every single x86 instruction completely uniquely.