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on June 21, 2020
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Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about ...
Sure, but that's them having a competent (well, less incompetent) ISA and microarchitecture
Hasn't x86 been basically RISC-like internally since the pentium-pro/amd k6? Is the translation layer that big of a hindrance?
blattimwind
on June 21, 2020
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ISA doesn't matter nearly as much as people think, unless it's something really different (like VLIW/EPIC/...).
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