Replies to post #27432 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Haddock]

Is the segmentation such a big deal? Isn't it just adding some registers together to get an effective address?

The cruft list:

* Number of registers
* x87 brain damage
* variable length instructions
* bizarre old instructions like inti and bound
* increment and decrement (which don't affect the flags!)
* those top-half-of-16-bit register things
* unaligned load store (which can be atomic even across cache
line boundaries!)
* predicated loads and stores (VIA didn't do this in some
versions of the C3)