Comment by snvzz
2 months ago
>Code size is a benefit for x86-64 however
Except it isn't. Code isn't one single pattern repeating again and again; on large enough bodies of code, RISC-V is the most dense, and it's not even close.
2 months ago
>Code size is a benefit for x86-64 however
Except it isn't. Code isn't one single pattern repeating again and again; on large enough bodies of code, RISC-V is the most dense, and it's not even close.
Decades of demoscene productions beg to differ. That just means compilers are awful, as they usually are.[1] x86 has far more optimisation opportunities than any RISC.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15720923
In absence of better data, we have to compare compiler output.
Here is your "better data": https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/papers/iccd09/ll_documen...
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