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by _quasimodo 4667 days ago
From the Discussion section:

  Removing all but the mov instruction from future iterations of
  the x86 architecture would have many advantages: the instruc-
  tion format would be greatly simplified, the expensive decode unit
  would become much cheaper, and silicon currently used for com-
  plex functional units could be repurposed as even more cache. As
  long as someone else implements the compiler.
:D