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Re:IBM Opens Power Microprocessor Architecture by TwoBit on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @07:28PM (#7637599)
Everything seems like a nice architecture compared to x86. I do love the PowerPC instruction set though.

I'm not a hardware guy, but it always seemed like PowerPC chips underperformed others and ran as hot as hell while doing so.

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Re:IBM Opens Power Microprocessor Architecture by protomyth on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @10:03PM (#7638126)
I seem to remember an article that pointed out some of the POWER addressing modes made it hard to optimize so it always would run slower than other chips. I would really love to hear what the story actually is.
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