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		TwoBit on April 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM Opens Power Microprocessor Architecture Everything seems like a nice architecture compared to x86. I do love the PowerPC instruction set though. I'm not a hardware guy, but it always seemed like PowerPC chips underperformed others and ran as hot as hell while doing so.

protomyth on April 24, 2014 [–]

I seem to remember an article that pointed out some of the POWER addressing modes made it hard to optimize so it always would run slower than other chips. I would really love to hear what the story actually is.

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