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johncolanduoni
on May 13, 2017
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VME Broken on AMD Ryzen
Is there any decent estimate as to how much silicon you could expect to save by dropping stuff that was long ago shunted to microcode?
pcwalton
on May 13, 2017
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It's not so much silicon as engineering and maintenance time keeping all that stuff working.
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