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In article <DOCONNOR.92Nov20100231@potato.sedona.intel.com>, doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
> 
> mu@terapin.com (Mu Hong Lin) writes:
> ] Will someone explain ( technially ) why RISC chips are so much faster
> ] than CISC chips??
> 
> RISC chips don't need to support obsolete mis-features from 10 years ago.
> CISC chips generally do, because they are all old architectures.
> --
> Dennis O'Connor			doconnor@sedona.intel.com

>tmcconne@sedona
>  To be fair, that answer may fit a particular part, but has nothing to do with
>the RISC/CISC question...........
>  In a more general sense, there is no clear winner in the RISC/CISC wars,
>although RISC seems to be gaining the edge,based on announcements from the last
>couple of years.                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Although the initial idea was for RISC to have simple architecture,
single clock cycle instruction set and taking full advantage of piplining and
other parallel processing techniques, some argue that delaying hardware 
architectural decisions to software engineers has made compiler writing and
other software engineering issues much difficult tasks to accomplish.  And thus
there is also this sentiment that we are not getting anywhere with RISC.
	Comments and responses please.

Yeo Yek Chong