07-28-2014, 07:17 PM
Great stop trying to destroy humanity's knowledge
most of cut's post tl;dr: x86 has funny addressing
I'd like to add that CISC is not an issue because the instructions are translated into RISC-like ones anyway
want to point out that in the late 70s having 1 MB of ram was pretty good
x64 did solve some weird addressing issues but not all of them
cut's post focuses on specific examples rather than general issues: it's old, it has to be backwards compatible, it has small number of registers (fixed by x64), variable length opcodes
but if you think about it these issues don't really matter to most people, because x86 is dominant in the pc market, performance is fine, and will stay that way in the forseeable future
most of cut's post tl;dr: x86 has funny addressing
I'd like to add that CISC is not an issue because the instructions are translated into RISC-like ones anyway
want to point out that in the late 70s having 1 MB of ram was pretty good
x64 did solve some weird addressing issues but not all of them
cut's post focuses on specific examples rather than general issues: it's old, it has to be backwards compatible, it has small number of registers (fixed by x64), variable length opcodes
but if you think about it these issues don't really matter to most people, because x86 is dominant in the pc market, performance is fine, and will stay that way in the forseeable future