Sure, we all settled relatively steadily on fruitful common ground in the end, and that's all that really matters. I just think it's ironic that people toot the

Sure, we all settled relatively steadily on fruitful common ground in the end, and that's all that really matters. I just think it's ironic that people toot the RISC horn so hard in these threads when modern high performance RISC chips are much closer to the Pentium than vice versa. So many people miss that RISC was inspired by CISC microcode, not the other way around, and that the existence of complicated OoO RISC chips basically proves the RISC hypothesis (that you could keep the architecture simple to make it easy to crank clock frequencies up and up) false.