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HN discussion of the paper that this is based on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309631
by pokle 11y ago
HN discussion of the paper that this is based on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309631
- jordigh 11y agoThat paper is so funny: Finding Turing-completeness in unlikely places has long been a pastime of bored computer scientists. And Removing all but the mov instruction from future iterations of the x86 architecture would have many advantages: the instruction format would be greatly simplified, the expensive decode unit would become much cheaper, and silicon currently used for complex functional units could be repurposed as even more cache. As long as someone else implements the compiler. Well, I guess someone has implemented it now!
- cwre 11y agoAlso: > Thus, while it has been known for quite some time that x86 has far too many instructions, we can now contribute the novel result that it also has far too many registers.