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The greater simplicity of ARMv8 and its fixed sized instructions definitely helps, but also Intel runs their cores at nearly 2x higher frequency, which means a lot less logic can b…

Guess where some of Intel's engineers have fled to? People move around, so it's not like one company has a strangle-hold on knowledge that can't be replicated by another company, e…

That paper uses no actual benchmarks, but rather grabbed a single system utility and then hand-optimized it; SPEC and geekbench show x86-64 comes in well over 4 bytes on average.

Considering that x86 is less dense than any RISC ISA, the "compression" argument behind CISC falls apart. No surprise a denser, trivial to decode ISA does better.

> the M1 is fast isn’t due to technical tricks, but due to Apple throwing a lot of hardware at the problem. Apple threw more hardware at the problem and they lowered the frequency.…