It allows for an architecture to deepen pipelines, add registers, add cache, and pull off tricks like SMT.
> the ISA chosen doesn't have much to do with the performance of CPUs
That's somewhat my point, the limiting factor for ISA performance is the physics surrounding the transistors.
It allows for an architecture to deepen pipelines, add registers, add cache, and pull off tricks like SMT.
> the ISA chosen doesn't have much to do with the performance of CPUs
That's somewhat my point, the limiting factor for ISA performance is the physics surrounding the transistors.