Re:M2 MacBook Air scores higher on Windows 11 GeekBench than...
by viraptor on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:21PM
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> once newer iterations of X86-64 drop support for legacy instructions (...) - we will have smaller, more efficient X86-64 chips.
Don't get too excited about it. The old compatibility is going to be tiny in the die space compared to even basic Intel extensions. And it's not just the old code - new code may well contain a "mov al..." so you can't just drop it. All of those instructions will stay with us for decades.
Don't get too excited about it. The old compatibility is going to be tiny in the die space compared to even basic Intel extensions. And it's not just the old code - new code may well contain a "mov al..." so you can't just drop it. All of those instructions will stay with us for decades.