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Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by devnullbrain on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @08:28AM (#45181032)
> fixed-length instructions seem really nice when you're building little baby computers, but if you're building a really big computer, to predict or to figure out where all the instructions are, it isn't dominating the die. So it doesn't matter that much.

The notebooks of TFA aren't really big computers.

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Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:01PM (#45187953)
they are. By "small" here, we're referring to the Core size, not the machine size. i.e. an in order, dual issue cpu is small, but a M1 chip is massive.
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