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I'd love to see a ground-up ISA that takes a CISC-style approach without all the memory hazards (and other faults) baked into it. Decode logic is "cheap" these
by spamizbad 2y ago
I'd love to see a ground-up ISA that takes a CISC-style approach without all the memory hazards (and other faults) baked into it. Decode logic is "cheap" these days relative to other things on the CPU so why not lean into it?
- hajile 2y agoMaintaining separation of concerns is the complete opposite of a CISC-style approach. If you are implementing garbage collection or OOP in hardware, you are bound to conflate things in weird ways just like this becomes unavoidable in software too.