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That's because there are only a few ISAs left standing. The ISA does have consequences for core design. This becomes apparent for ISAs that were unintentionally on the wrong side of the development of superscalar. The dead ISAs assumed in-order, single-issue, fixed-length pipelines and as soon as the state of the art shifted those ISAs became hard to implement. MIPS and SPARC are both basically incompatible with modern high-performance CPU design techniques.
parent jeffbee 3 years ago

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