maybe i was conflating the two, but my point was cost of implementation. niche or not,minimizing hardware cost is important to consumers and vendors alike. On t

maybe i was conflating the two, but my point was cost of implementation. niche or not,minimizing hardware cost is important to consumers and vendors alike. On the other hand, for general purpose computing, complex instructions can provide a performance boost, as do "niche" instruction sets that may not necessarily complex as you put it. Since ARM doesn't actually make the hardware, it should let vendors select which feature sets they want to implement based on their requirements, ARM programs can then test the value of these static registers before attempting conditional execution.