Seems to me like Intel and AMD aren't very forward thinking, adding new instructions and registers every year or two. As if the x86 instruction set wasn't bloated enough, now they're going to have instructions with 4-byte prefixes, and new registers you can only access with AVX. What's next after that, AVX-1024 with 6-byte prefixes? Meanwhile this renders MMX and SSE sort of redundant. Seems to me we might be better served with some kind of vector coprocessor and instructions that can operate directly on large vectors in memory, instead of doubling the size of the vector registers all the time and making x86 an ever harder target to generate efficient code for.
Maybe this is another area where ARM can beat x86. Have a better planned out vector instruction set that can be expanded without adding hundreds of new instructions all the time, and more compact machine code.
Maybe this is another area where ARM can beat x86. Have a better planned out vector instruction set that can be expanded without adding hundreds of new instructions all the time, and more compact machine code.