[alain94040]

For me, dispatching refers to a very specific piece of the CPU micro-architecture, by far not the most complex or largest area. So by focusing on "dispatching", you make it sound like the overhead is small. Maybe you meant to use another word.

My point stands that from a silicon area perspective, 99% of the CPU is overhead when all you need is a fixed function.

Based on your background, I know you know that. A lot of details in the article show that you know what you are talking about and have specific use cases in mind. I can guess those and for those the article is correct.