Build your own Linux

Re:Build your own Linux by renox on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:51PM (#15033096)

I disagree with the last part of your comment: many RISC added a 16 bit extension of their ISA.. So you can have RISC and code density similar to CISC, no need to keep a bloated instruction decoder on the CPU..

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Re:Build your own Linux by orbifold on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:27AM (#15034225)

The instruction decoder is tiny compared to the rest of the components on the chip, it also can be (partially) autogenerated. I still don't want to be on the team doing that...

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