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sudowhodoido
on Oct 1, 2014
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XSA-108 Advisory
In the age of high level languages and compilers, that's exactly what they should have done, possible twice by now.
joosters
on Oct 1, 2014
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They did. It was called Itanium.
Dylan16807
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Itanium was a completely different type of architecture, not a rebuild that keeps the same basic form but simplifies.
snowwrestler
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Haven't they? I thought x86 was now basically just a legacy compatibility layer on top of significantly more streamlined and optimized RISC-like operations.
girvo
on Oct 2, 2014
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I think that's true, but the problem is end-users don't have access to that layer, do they?
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