Pontus Pihlgren <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:58:24AM -0400, Mouse wrote: >> Such as every x86 processor since, what, the Pentium? They're all >> RISC cores (designed for and) running an x86 emulator. > > I've been told this more than a few times and read it in various places. > It always make me wonder, could we not allow a mode in modern Intel > processors that lets us bypass the x86 code emulation/translation and > run "directly on the metal" (if there were such a thing).
I believe the VIA C3 had an undocumented feature to allow executing the underlying RISC instructions.
