> Two levels of interpretation seems baroque, but somehow it was fast enough for 68k workstations. Well today we have x86 that gets translate into micro ops, a

> Two levels of interpretation seems baroque, but somehow it was fast enough for 68k workstations. Well today we have x86 that gets translate into micro ops, and I doubt those micro-ops directly activate control lines? Not to mention all the magic that happens with reordering, register renaming, speculative execution etc. The amount of complexity inside a modern x86 chip is insane, I don't think it makes two levels of microcode seem all that baroque in comparison.