Sorry (Was: Language-specific CPUs

[Jules Richardson]

Fred Cisin wrote:
> For that matter (sorry for the mass indigestion), surely Intel is studying
> and doing massive statistical analyses of the relative frequency of
> different instructions

Presumably - I expect this is common practice for all CPU manufacturers (and 
what I believe fed the first RISC designs way back when)

> If their data is real world, then such
> optimizations would ultimately result in creation of processors that are
> specifically optimized for the weirdities of Windoze!

Multiple types of halt instruction, you mean?