Intel announces major update to core x86 instruction set

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• 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The changes:

  Intel® APX doubles the number of general-purpose registers (GPRs) from 16 to 32. This allows the compiler to keep more values in registers; as a result, APX-compiled code contains 10% fewer loads and more than 20% fewer stores than the same code compiled for an Intel® 64 baseline.2 Register accesses are not only faster, but they also consume significantly less dynamic power than complex load and store operations.

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• thingsiplay@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  @keenkoon I wonder if it would make sense to store a regular compiled code and the extensions into one binary. And only load the extensions if the binary is executed on such an architecture, otherwise be compatible to older architecture.

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