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carry_bit on Nov 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery

What does this mean for the future of CPU design?

VLIW and other advanced designs never went mainstream in part because the AOT on install/JIT everything future never arrived. But with the success of Rosetta 2, has that future finally arrived?

Veedrac on Nov 25, 2020 [–]

If anything Apple has proven that the OoO power tax is mostly imaginary, so we'll probably just get more, bigger OoO for a while.

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