[HN Gopher] It's done in hardware so it's cheap (2012)
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       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)
        
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
        
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