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[jacob]

Interesting. I will probably get burned at the stake for saying this, but back in the 1990s when BeOS was released for x86 I played with it a little,...

[jacob]

Not meaning to offend but based on your writing so far I don't "trust you" when it comes to discussing CPU design. First of all, do you have...

[jacob]

It doesn't matter if it's byte-aligned. On a RISC all instructions will be say 32 bits, no matter how many of these bits are used to select registers....

[jacob]

Sure they can. You can always transfer more data faster by using more silicon, bigger caches, greater bus bandwidth etc. In other words, by having much...

[jacob]

I don't think so. Rust has the "cool" factor but D is used for many in-house development projects and they are not going to switch over to another...

[jacob]

It doesn't work that way. GPRs are used to store a program's live variables, which are always few and don't increase in number as available RAM grows....

[jacob]

Utter nonsense. The additional GPRs exist ONLY in 64bit mode so they don't concern 32bit binaries AT ALL (whether compiled for i686 or any other x86 target)....

[jacob]

Steam != desktop. While I think that the 6% desktop usage is almost certainly a rubbish figure, Linux is used on the desktop in many large institutions...

[jacob]

Far from it. It's 100% compatible by having an identical 32bit Protected mode plus the new Compatible mode. In those modes the performance of *32 BIT*...