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To: Ritz who wrote (27976)7/7/1998 2:17:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 33344
 
Ritz,

Broken into their simplest components, all microprocessor instructions consist of loads, stores, arithmetics or branches. By splitting the x86 instructions up into those basic components, they can run just as fast as any RISC instruction set.

For x86 it is a more complicated problem and requires more silicon area, but ultimately the speed paths are the same datapath in all processors.

Scumbria