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Damn good point. Sure, there’s no point in microcoding something if it is just doing the same steps as a hand-coded version could do. But that doesn’t mean we
by rhelz 2y ago
Damn good point. Sure, there’s no point in microcoding something if it is just doing the same steps as a hand-coded version could do.
But that doesn’t mean we just, say, stop implementing floating point operations!! We just make the hardware do it better than hand-coding can.