World's Thickest Book

Intel should publish all of their documentation, including

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-manual-325462.html
and
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-optimization-manual.html

in one book.

As in ELEPHANT DICK LARGE.
As in less than 10% of the total size? So if they threw out say half of the instruction set (being extremely generous here), the chip will be 5% cheaper and more energy efficient?

It's only gotten worse with additional shit added on since then.
I thought your problem was not with new useful shit but with useless legacy shit, the proportion of which decreased as more shit was added?

Also, original P5 had 3 million transistors, Sandy Bridge has about 250 millions per core, what does that say about the proportion of transistors wasted on legacy shit and the possibility for improvement by cutting it off?

I'm getting a feeling that you're a humanities major and a goy, to be honest. Your inability to intuitively grasp basic mathematical properties of the situation and the implications for possible efficiency and profit gains is hard to explain otherwise.