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kenstoday at 4:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

Author here for your 8087 questions...


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bonzinitoday at 5:41 PM

That's a really vertical microcode. It looks more like a specialized assembly than microcode. I guess it makes sense, since the algorithms are so complex and executing one microinstruction per cycle (is that correct?) already provides almost an order of magnitude performance improvement.