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I believe there is a point at which we will be emulating silicon so fast that we will be able to realize true Single Instruction Set computing.

Such a machine would be nowhere near as efficient as a CISC computer in terms of work per clock cycle, but what if our "silicon" in the future can run an almost arbitrary frequency? We would be able to emulate any instruction set natively in real time. The perfect FPGA.



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