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CISC/RISC ... irrelevant.

Read here:

http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/risc-cisc/rvc-1.html

There is no point in distinguishing between RISC and CISC since the terms were pretty meaningless in the first place. As David Ditzel, the chief architect of Sun?s SPARC family and CEO of Transmeta said:

"Today [in RISC] we have large design teams and long design cycles," he said. "The performance story is also much less clear now. The die sizes are no longer small. It just doesn't seem to make as much sense." The result is the current crop of complex RISC chips. "Superscalar and out-of-order execution are the biggest problem areas that have impeded performance [leaps]," Ditzel said. "The MIPS R10,000 and HP PA-8000 seem much more complex to me than today's standard CISC architecture, which is the Pentium II. So where is the advantage of RISC, if the chips aren't as simple anymore?"

And that was from 1998 - 6 years of further development mean there is no such thing as RISC. And the term "CISC" only existed because of RISC, so therefore neither term has any meaning for modern CPUs.

Posted by: Fred Fredrickson   Posted on: 02/18/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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