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dmitrygryesterday at 10:44 PM1 replyview on HN

> also means a hard upper limit on the number of instructions that could ever be supported. Which is obviously a problem for a future-proof architecture.

Yup, aarch64 is doomed. /s


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camel-cdryesterday at 11:50 PM

You can see the encoding limitation it in the design on SVE, which only has destructive operations, but MOVPRFX, which is a round about way of doing 64-bit instructions, without doing 64-bit instructions.

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