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It might well be fugly but it works. That's the key point. I'm sure Intel (or anyone else), if they could develop x86 again from scratch, and with the benefit
by joosters 12y ago
It might well be fugly but it works. That's the key point.
I'm sure Intel (or anyone else), if they could develop x86 again from scratch, and with the benefit of hindsight, would create a much nicer mechanism. But that's just speculation and wishful thinking.
- sudowhodoido 12y agoIn the age of high level languages and compilers, that's exactly what they should have done, possible twice by now.
- joosters 12y agoThey did. It was called Itanium.
- Dylan16807 12y agoItanium was a completely different type of architecture, not a rebuild that keeps the same basic form but simplifies.
- snowwrestler 12y agoHaven't they? I thought x86 was now basically just a legacy compatibility layer on top of significantly more streamlined and optimized RISC-like operations.
- girvo 12y agoI think that's true, but the problem is end-users don't have access to that layer, do they?