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dd🌺 · 12 answers · 3mo

How much do you hate the x86 instruction set architecture?

Yeah why did they go making 85 more after the first one? Not sure who thought that many x's was a good idea :o

i don’t know anything about it tbh so i hate it the normal amount of “aaaa idk what this is, scary!!!”

about 20%, i found it fun to code in when I did, but I understand that RISC is preferred nowadays and we only still use x86 because it's grandfathered in.

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