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I'm glad an authoritative source has stated this. It's been ongoing BS for years. I first got into ARM machines with the Acorn Archimedes and even back then, pe
by gt0 1y ago
I'm glad an authoritative source has stated this. It's been ongoing BS for years. I first got into ARM machines with the Acorn Archimedes and even back then, people were spouting some kind of intrinsic efficiency benefit to ARM that just didn't make any sense.
- astrange 1y agoIt is true for small cores, it's just not important for big cores compared to all the other things you have to solve.
- MBCook 1y agoMakes sense. A 386 had 275,000 transistors. You can see how instruction decode stuff for a more complex x86 instruction could be a reasonable fraction of that. ArrowLake is 17.8 billion. Even if you divide by the core count instruction decode obviously isn’t much of that.