25 Sep
2018
25 Sep
'18
10 a.m.
Peter Jeremy <peter(a)rulingia.com> wrote:
In the specific case of x86, I would dispute that.
The various warts in
the x86 instruction set and "architecture" mean that x86 code density is
relatively low and on a par with SPARC code.
This paper has a nice survey of instruction set densities, which very much
disagrees with your statement:
http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/papers/iccd09/iccd09_density.pdf
Tony.
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