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An explanation of CPUs..	by taIon	2003-05-21 09:28:10
That's very good actually.	by thewrongcrowd	2003-05-21 10:17:07
It explained some things to me.	by toxin	2003-05-21 10:35:59
And I had never actually understood	by Llyr	2003-05-21 10:37:33
Now if you really want to blow the minds	by talon0720	2003-05-21 11:09:41
That sounds intelligent (n/t)	by Llyr	2003-05-21 11:17:58
It a very good trick.	by taIon	2003-05-21 11:30:55
They normally call it micro-codes. It means they can clock them faster since a RISC system allows far higher clock speeds. This gives them a marketing advantage. If you look at the pipeline of a P4 or athlon about the first 3 stages are instruction translation. Plus x86 is a nightmare that is best to avoid when possible. Unfortunatly we're stuck with it unless you want to throw all the existing software away. This explanation is actually only accurate up to about the pentium 1 generation (and IIRC even they were running an internal RISC machine). After that things like out of order execution started comming into play.
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Actually my understanding was that	by talon0720	2003-05-21 12:43:39
You may be right there.	by taIon	2003-05-21 12:58:02
Of course I'm right.	by talon0720	2003-05-21 14:50:31

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