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Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by ducktective on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:54PM (#25421544)
What are js instructions and what does javascript(?) have to do with ISA?
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Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by Gaelan on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:16PM (#25421864)
IIRC, the standard ARM instruction set does include some instructions with "javascript" in the end. I think they're floating point instructions that handle some edge case (NaNs?) in the same way that x86, and therefore the JS spec, do.
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Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by flohofwoe on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:25PM (#25421967)
See here:

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/g/A64-Floati...

Not Apple Silicon specific though

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