Re:Why CPUs Aren't Getting Any Faster
by Locke1689 on Saturday October 16, 2010 @03:14AM
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x86 is to[o] complex
If you're going to criticize CISC architectures I would have done it before Intel moved to optimized RISC microcode in implementation. Arguably the greatest advancement in CPU technologies in the past couple years was the addition of hardware virtualization extensions to fulfill the Goldberg requirements. That said, I am biased because I wrote the Intel hardware virtualization layer for an HPC VMM.
If you're going to criticize CISC architectures I would have done it before Intel moved to optimized RISC microcode in implementation. Arguably the greatest advancement in CPU technologies in the past couple years was the addition of hardware virtualization extensions to fulfill the Goldberg requirements. That said, I am biased because I wrote the Intel hardware virtualization layer for an HPC VMM.