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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by fluoridation on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @07:09AM (#45037995)
Okay? x86-64 has like twenty extensions. What's your point?
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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by rerdavies on Thursday August 28, 2025 @04:16PM (#45056575)
The point was that, with respect to the effects of implementing multiple decode stages for multiple instruction sets, ARM doesn't have an advantage over x86 in that respect.

(M1 does, because they don't implement aarch32, or thumb).

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