Did anyone find a reasonably prominent link to the source?
It seems to me as if this article is mostly linkbait simply by reason of it failing to provide anything more than vague phrases about the source: "This paper is an updated version of one I’ve referenced in previous stories, ... the team from the University of Wisconsin"
Half-baked studies frequently attempt to shout down the real hard science.
Think we have the answer in the source article's abstract,
" Our methodical investigation demonstrates the role of ISA
in modern microprocessors’ performance and energy efficiency.
We find that ARM and x86 processors are simply engineering
design points optimized for different levels of performance, and
there is nothing fundamentally more energy efficient in one ISA
class or the other. The ISA being RISC or CISC seems irrelevant."
It seems to me as if this article is mostly linkbait simply by reason of it failing to provide anything more than vague phrases about the source: "This paper is an updated version of one I’ve referenced in previous stories, ... the team from the University of Wisconsin"
Half-baked studies frequently attempt to shout down the real hard science.