Comment by phire
And that design is generally regarded to have been a mistake, results in very bad code density.
ARM went out of their way to remove it. Multiple times, with both AArch64 and the various implementations of Thumb.
And that design is generally regarded to have been a mistake, results in very bad code density.
ARM went out of their way to remove it. Multiple times, with both AArch64 and the various implementations of Thumb.
I can't imagine the pressure at Acorn, with the Olivetti acquisition impending, on Furber and Wilson to deliver their design unoptimized for the required task.
A CPU for this century is not the one for last?