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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   
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