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From the Discussion section: Removing all but the mov instruction from future iterations of the x86 architecture would have many advantages: the instruc-
by _quasimodo 13y ago
From the Discussion section:
Removing all but the mov instruction from future iterations of
the x86 architecture would have many advantages: the instruc-
tion format would be greatly simplified, the expensive decode unit
would become much cheaper, and silicon currently used for com-
plex functional units could be repurposed as even more cache. As
long as someone else implements the compiler.
:D