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by fulafel 2048 days ago
Good list.

Observation re list of ISAs that evolved conditional move vs ISAs that omit conditional move: MIPS, POWER, x86, SPARC all targeted high power "fat core" applications at the point where it got added. AVR, Hitachi SH, PowerPC didn't add it while being driven more by low power / embedded applications. And many ISAs continued to see wide use in the pre-cmov versions of the ISA in embedded space (eg MIPS) after the additions. (PowerPC even removed it when being modeled after POWER)