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With all the optimizations going on, high performance RISC designs don't look like RISC designs anymore either. The ISA has very little to do with whatever the execution units actually see or execute.


It is baffling to me that byte-code is essentially a 'high level language' these days.


And yet, when I first approached C, it was considered a "high level" language.


Because the functional units are utilizing microcode? Or do you mean something else?




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