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rayinertoday at 1:25 AM0 repliesview on HN

> X86 is the best argument that you can build a fast efficient RISC-V chip... because the X86 instruction set is a much bigger mess.

I don't think that's actually true. There's weird historical baggage and whatnot. But if you're running in long mode, it's actually a fairly sensible architecture with useful memory addressing modes.