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Re:The iPad Pro's chip is not a big deal by Veedrac on Saturday November 28, 2015 @01:14AM (#10640227)
The opposite is increasingly true, too - micro-op and macro-op fusion joins multiple instructions into one.

There's no clear-cut line no more.

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Re:The iPad Pro's chip is not a big deal by millstone on Saturday November 28, 2015 @02:36AM (#10640375)
The implementations may have converged but there's still hard differences in the ISA. RISC (including ARM) has fixed-width instructions, x86 has variable width. RISC (including ARM again) is load-store, x86 allows memory to be sources or destinations. So ARM can have simpler decoder logic, if nothing else.
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Re:The iPad Pro's chip is not a big deal by Veedrac on Saturday November 28, 2015 @09:47AM (#10641173)
Sure, but it's not true that CISC machines are just proxies to RISC ones.
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Re:The iPad Pro's chip is not a big deal by threeseed on Saturday November 28, 2015 @02:13AM (#10640330)
> no more ?

I can't remember there being a clean line for decades now.

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