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It's not orthogonal vs. crazy x86-y instruction sets, it's in-order vs. superscalar processing. The compiler knows the intimate details about each architecture
by colanderman 14y ago
It's not orthogonal vs. crazy x86-y instruction sets, it's in-order vs. superscalar processing. The compiler knows the intimate details about each architecture's pipeline latency to a degree that most programmers don't.