It would have been cool if x64 had un-fucked-up more of the x86 instruction encoding, maybe. Or that might just be me?
@tom_forsyth @ngaloppo That was the root of my original question. Is it actually better than ARM, for example?
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@tom_forsyth@ngaloppo Ie., it's ugly, but it's ugly for good reasons (better compressed, easier to implement quickly, etc.)? -
@cmuratori@ngaloppo "Free" shift hahahaha. Predication but only on a single flags reg, leading to really short dependencies. No load-op. - Show replies
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@cmuratori@tom_forsyth I’m no expert, but I’m guessing that the momentum it has helps its popularity.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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