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Re:How Many X86-64 Instructions Are There Anyway? by wolfgke on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @09:49AM (#14246262)
> Even with the complexity of Thumb-1, Thumb-2, and NEON, I'd give the edge to ARM in simplicity. At least the instruction encodings for ARM make sense, even today. x86 instruction decoding is absurd.

If you write down the x86 instruction encoding in octal, it makes a lot more sense:

> http://www.dabo.de/ccc99/www.camp.ccc.de/radio/help.txt

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Re:How Many X86-64 Instructions Are There Anyway? by pcwalton on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:49PM (#14250441)
For the 8086, sure. But modern x86 throws in Mod R/M, SIB bytes, REX prefixes, VEX prefixes, Operand Size Overrides…
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