/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1792485
>This architecture is extremely simple for compilers to deal with
>all instructions can be made conditional
lolno, they pulled that out of AArch64 precisely because that feature was targeted toward compact hand-written assembler programmers. they make advanced/multiple execution units harder to manage at the hardware level, and compilers also fail to deal well with a given generated instruction participating in multiple conditional paths without being a fork per se. the usual example given is the Euclidean algorithm for GCD, picrel
>actually liking special-purpose regs
even if the first implementations were slow af, the M680x0 was the absolute pinnacle of assembly language programming. change my mind