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Comment by mpweiher

The way you selectively quoted: yes, you removed the refutation.

And regarding the iAPX 432: it was slow in large part due to the failed object-capability model. For one, the model required multiple expensive lookups per instruction. And it required tremendous numbers of transistors, so many that despite forcing a (slow) multi-chip design there still wasn't enough transistor budget left over for performance enhancing features.

Performance enhancing features that contemporary designs with smaller transistor budgets but no object-capability model did have.

Opportunity costs matter.

parent mpweiher 9 months ago

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