[Arm-netbook] MNT Reform Campaign

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:53 PM Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:

> That brings us to another pertinent point about modern x86-64 CPUs: the
> performance presumably comes from the microarchitecture that is effectively
> internal and specific to each of the big players' products (things like Core
> and Zen). Seeking to compete with existing x86 products would involve a
> colossal amount of work replicating what they have managed to do with those
> microarchitecture efforts.

billion-transistor efforts.  insane instruction opcode lengths.  40
years development
history, any of which you leave out, you can kiss compatibility goodbye.

nobody in their right mind is going to try to enter that market with
anything other
than a fractional subset plus software JIT emulation of the rest.

l.