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		snvzz 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to ... >Spoiler, it's not much because most of the actual execution time is spent in a handful of basic OPs. Yet, on a CISC ISA, you still have to support everything else, which is essentially cruft.

devnullbrain 4 months ago [–]

Does that matter? I lean towards the yes-the-ISA-matters camp, but I'm also under the impression that most silicon is dark.

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