Michael S (already5chosen@yahoo.com) on 12/15/11 wrote:
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>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.

Yeah traditional ARM instructions. Not Thumb2, the current ARM instruction format, which is simpler and more like conventional RISC instructions in complexity.