2026-09-01 16:07 UTC
@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz Perhaps that’s why “We can’t have good things”, as another said, once.😀
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-09-01 16:15
@AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz If you want to design a CISC, I have plenty of experience there, and would be happy to toss in a bunch of highly complicated instructions. I just found out yesterday that the infamous REP string instructions from the 8086 family, that were originally reviled for being as slow as just repeating by hand, have been revived in recent-ish x64 CPUs and are now faster than doing it by hand.