On: The Mill CPU Architecture: Switches [video]

[naasking]

Decades of optimization on a crap architecture. The Mill has been able to learn from the mistakes made in every architecture to date. The kind of comparison you make doesn't mean anything as a result.

[mozumder → naasking]

Intel has also learned from each generation.

CISC is very efficient. They do the most ops per transistor.

[naasking → mozumder]

But Intel is constrained by backwards compatibility.

"CISC is very efficient" is a meaningless statement. The specific instruction set and its implementation is or is not efficient.