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|    Anton Ertl to John Levine    |
|    Re: Intel's Software Defined Super Cores    |
|    18 Sep 25 06:14:30    |
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   John Levine writes:   
   >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe   
   >   
   >They failed but perhaps things are different now. Their   
   >native architecture was VLIW which might have been part   
   >of the problem.   
      
   It definitely was. However, even a modern high-performance OoO cores   
   like Apple M1-M4's P-cores or on Qualcomm's Oryon, the performance of   
   dynamically-translated AMD64 code is usually slower than on comparable   
   CPUs from Intel and AMD.   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
    Mitch Alsup,    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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