What features/instructions of x86 ISA are dead? |
What features/instructions of x86 ISA are dead? |
There are a whole lot of gates available for use: every time you shrink the processor you make space for more. I bet those old unused instructions don't really occupy a lot of them, and perhaps some of them are only implemented in microcode in terms of actually used instructions. There is no pressure to make semi-dead instructions fast.
I am not an expert here but I'm semi-confident my answer is accurate. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Almost no one else is in Apple’s position of vertical integration though, except perhaps for the console makers.
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