Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer architect in ...

Couple of questionable generalities H@.<BR><BR>RISC ISAs generally have 32 bit instructions. Popular CISC ISAs like x86 and VAX generally have average instruction length less than 32 bits for most ...