[LAD] No nagging, a serious question

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I disagree. These processors used pipelining techniques pioneered in
> RISC processor designs, but have nothing to do with the concept of
> "RISC"  ... especially because such pipelining and execution
> optimization in CISC processors use a lot of transistors -- the very
> thing being conserved with RISC.

I was never aware that RISC was targetting on-core transistor count.
All I meant by my remark was that "modern processor designs already
incorporate everything that turned out to be good about RISC".