minus-squareYumiYumiYumi@alien.topBtoHardware@hardware.watch•Do today chips still have die space for old instruction set?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months ago why can’t they implement SSE3 by other, more powerful instrutions (like AVX) In short, the instruction semantics are slightly different, so they don’t do exactly the same thing. But it’s likely that the execution unit hardware is re-used for those. linkfedilink
In short, the instruction semantics are slightly different, so they don’t do exactly the same thing. But it’s likely that the execution unit hardware is re-used for those.