RE: [Assembly] ARM or x86? 01-18-2018, 07:42 PM
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(01-18-2018, 07:39 PM)Ender Wrote:(01-18-2018, 07:13 PM)phyrrus9 Wrote:(01-18-2018, 07:10 PM)Ender Wrote: RISC CPUs are great because of the 1 instruction per cycle thing. Â It's ridiculous that you can't easily figure out the number of cycles that your program will take on x86 without looking through Intel manuals or analyzing with a separate program. Â The conditionals are neat too.
However, everyone still uses Intel computers (look at the laptop world), so all the used ASM code will be for x86 or AMD64.
That's not entirely true. Look at PowerPC, SPARC, POWER, etc. Mobile phones and tablets almost exclusively use ARM, gaming consoles pretty much use PPC or custom AMD A chips (which are RISC), etc.
Specifically laptops and desktops.
I've still got a few powermac desktops somewhere and im sure ive got at least one macbook that's RISC

























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