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by mattst88 1403 days ago
bcantrill linked to it separately in the comments: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/07/18/revisiting-the-intel-...

The particular parts I was recalling are:

> The upshot of these decisions is that you have more code (because you have no immediates) accessing more memory (because you have no registers) that is dog-slow (because you have no data cache) that itself is not cached (because you have no instruction cache). Yee haw!

Awesome.