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Re:How many billions of transistors in your iPhone processor? by 7373737373 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:47PM (#38062609)
The

    Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Combined Volumes: 1, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 4
has over 5000 pages!

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

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Re:How many billions of transistors in your iPhone processor? by penguin_booze on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:30AM (#38066586)
I'm out of date by a couple of years, but the last I knew, the ARM Architecture Reference Manual (amusingly, also called the ARM ARM) is around 8000 pages. Though, it carries similar corpus from the ARMv7 manual, now bottled as AArch32.
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Re:How many billions of transistors in your iPhone processor? by raverbashing on Monday October 30, 2023 @04:30AM (#38066910)
Some people might be wondering "huh, why number them in this weird way?!"

It's because they were originally 3 volumes. volume 2 is the ASM reference, 3 is the "how to do things" reference (System programming guide). Volume 1 is more of a general reference so maybe that's why it didn't grow so much.

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