Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Falleron

macrumors 68000
Original poster
Nov 22, 2001
1,609
0
UK
Look, this is a quote off the register. It seems to be saying that to make the RISC a lot quicker is easy! This is good isn't it?

"The Hammer approach is 'we know how to do a CISC to RISC, how to make that RISC very fast, we know what few changes in the instruction set architecture would make it lots better - 16 general purpose registers, 16 floating point registers instead of the 8 entry stack from the 386 days - so let's do that'.
 
It is easy to make a fast chip. It is not easy to make a cheap fast chip. Doubling the number of registers on a chip is a very expensive thing to do.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.