Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), December 15, 2011 10:18 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) on 12/15/11 wrote:
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>Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra@ntlworld.com) on 12/15/11 wrote:
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>>I disagree. The impact on the high-end is smaller nowadays, eventhough it remains
>>non-trivial. Nobody would claim that 4-way x86 decode is easy! It has taken a very
>>long time for x86 to get there, when 3rd generation OoO ARM is already going to be 4-way.
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>That's a total red herring.
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>x86 instructions do more.
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It's ARM, we are talking about. Not MIPS, not Alpha. ARM.
ARM instructions are pretty damn powerful.
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>Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra@ntlworld.com) on 12/15/11 wrote:
>>
>>I disagree. The impact on the high-end is smaller nowadays, eventhough it remains
>>non-trivial. Nobody would claim that 4-way x86 decode is easy! It has taken a very
>>long time for x86 to get there, when 3rd generation OoO ARM is already going to be 4-way.
>
>That's a total red herring.
>
>x86 instructions do more.
>
It's ARM, we are talking about. Not MIPS, not Alpha. ARM.
ARM instructions are pretty damn powerful.