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0 pointsbrutal_chaos_4y ago0 comments

> Faster on which CPU?

Perhaps faster means fewer instructions in this instance? Considering number of instructions is what has been discussed.

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Right, but all architectures can handle many combinations of instructions in 1 cycle, so this is not really a great proxy for that.

Same for code size. If the instructions are half the size, having 1.5x more instructions still means smaller binaries.

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0 pointsbrutal_chaos_4y ago0 comments

> Faster on which CPU?

Perhaps faster means fewer instructions in this instance? Considering number of instructions is what has been discussed.

Right, but all architectures can handle many combinations of instructions in 1 cycle, so this is not really a great proxy for that.

Same for code size. If the instructions are half the size, having 1.5x more instructions still means smaller binaries.

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