This is the exact argument that RISC advocates used to declare CISC dead. Yet the Pentium has done a remarkable job keeping up with the performance of much cleaner architectures like the PowerPC. The point is that there are all kinds of ways to get performance improvements, and clock speed, VLIW, RISC, AltiVec, MMX, etc.. are all just some of the ways. It's all just going to keep getting faster....
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This is the exact argument that RISC advocates used to declare CISC dead. Yet the Pentium has done a remarkable job keeping up with the performance of much cleaner architectures like the PowerPC. The point is that there are all kinds of ways to get performance improvements, and clock speed, VLIW, RISC, AltiVec, MMX, etc.. are all just some of the ways. It's all just going to keep getting faster....