Introducing Intel® Advanced Performance Extensions (Intel® APX)

21 points by williballenthin

fanf

Increasing from 16 to 32 general purpose registers, more predicated instructions, status flags can bet set optionally, load and store pairs of registers … where have I seen these features before?!

oh, uh, previously, also, and much more recently

david_chisnall

I was thinking a bit more previously.
- fanf
  
  Oh yeah, everything Intel was iAPX in the 1980s
  - kjs3
    
    I didn’t see “object paradigm is enshrined in the hardware and you have to program it in Ada”.
- classichasclass
  
  Ha! That was the first thing I thought of too. Not at all confusing, Intel.
williballenthin

Ah sorry this is duplicate content of your first link. I’m sorry!
zesterer

Carcinisation except it’s everything copying aarch64
- kjs3
  
  If you’re going to steal, steal reasonably good stuff.
zesterer

I think my pet hate is companies releasing features with adjectives like ‘advanced’ in the name. I know it’s just marketing, but 10-20 years down the line the feature is not going to be ‘advanced’, it’s going to be ‘legacy’, and yet we’ll all still be stuck with the name and the next iteration will have to come up with new adjectives to differentiate it like ‘ultra’ or ‘extreme’. Just use a name that accurately describes the feature or some meaningless noun that doesn’t degenerate into undifferentiated adjective soup over time.