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by The_Colonel 815 days ago
> It could use very little power and very little space and still be a very big bottleneck.

I believe in chip design, this doesn't really happen (often). You can optimize the bottlenecks by allocating it more space and power.

I interpret Keller's statement indirectly - given that modern x86 CPUs dedicate only a small part of its circuitry to decoding logic means that it's not a bottleneck (otherwise there would be more circuitry for it).