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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by pm215 on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:17AM (#31121837)
Yes, absolutely you should have a point to make with your new architecture, and that's likely to involve at least some weirdness. What I'm trying to get at is that the weirdness budget isn't infinite, and therefore you want to be careful to spend it on making your point, not frittering it away on incidentals.
Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by gumby on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:25PM (#31123762)
Oh I agree, I was mainly commenting that the size of that “budget” is smaller than it should be, because of the malign influence of C.