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Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM by socialdemocrat on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:35PM (#25388311)
What aspect added to x86 is RISC like? It sounds a bit like an oxymoron. If you start with a complex instruction set, you cannot make it less complex by adding new instructions.
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Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM by saagarjha on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:43PM (#25391486)
Generally, this is (poorly) used to refer to x86 decoding things to micro-ops.
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