[HN Gopher] It's done in hardware so it's cheap (2012) ___________________________________________________________________ It's done in hardware so it's cheap (2012) Author : todsacerdoti Score : 18 points Date : 2022-05-26 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (yosefk.com) (TXT) w3m dump (yosefk.com) | robocat wrote: | > And if ARM beats x86, it won't be, straightforwardly, "because | RISC is better" - x86 will have lost for business reasons, and it | could have gone the other way for business reasons. But the fact | that it will have lost to a RISC - that will be because RISC is | technically better. That's why there's no CISC competitor to lose | to. | | Yosef must be using a different definition of RISC from Jim | Keller, because in Jim's interviews he says that modern ARM is | essentially a CISC processor. | shadowofneptune wrote: | The idea that processors are so complex because of C is one of | the more persistent stories on HN, and I have to wonder why. It's | easy to find looking at publications from the time that the 68000 | and 8086 were marketed with Pascal or PL/M. We would have gotten | a similar model of execution anyway even if C hadn't eaten the | world. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-26 23:00 UTC)