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It is true for small cores, it's just not important for big cores compared to all the other things you have to solve.
by astrange 1y ago
It 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.