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RISC VS CISC

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-16 0:02

Why are modern cpus still using cisc at the top layer?

Name: Cudder !MhMRSATORI!FBeUS42x4uM+kgp 2012-01-16 7:03

Most of these have such regular instruction sets that each hex/octal opcode corresponds exactly to the same operation, register, or addressing mode, no matter what the instruction is.
Have you looked at the x86 opcodes in octal?

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Also don't forget a processor that saturates the databus with instruction fetches will leave very little bandwidth for everything else that wants to use it.

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