By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), February 4, 2013 7:55 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
none (none.delete@this.none.com) on February 4, 2013 3:03 am wrote:
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> And there also is the validation nightmare that this increased complexity requires.
> As an example, microcode was mentioned in another thread as something quite complex.
That's the only argument that does not sound bogus.
But, then again, out of the group consisting of Power, SPARC, ARM/ARM64 and IPF I have troubles picking one that will serve as a poster child for architectural simplicity :-)
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> And there also is the validation nightmare that this increased complexity requires.
> As an example, microcode was mentioned in another thread as something quite complex.
That's the only argument that does not sound bogus.
But, then again, out of the group consisting of Power, SPARC, ARM/ARM64 and IPF I have troubles picking one that will serve as a poster child for architectural simplicity :-)