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		google234123 on March 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Addressing Criticism of RISC-V Microprocessors With every node shrinkage those legacy instructions take up less space

bigcheesegs on March 20, 2022 [–]

Encoding space, not die space.

google234123 on March 21, 2022 | [–]

Encoding space is almost infinite on intel though.

ansible on March 21, 2022 | | [–]

> Encoding space is almost infinite on Intel though.

Yes... if you willing to tolerate ever more complex and slow instruction decoding. This is a very bad tradeoff.

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