Meme transcription:

[Guy looking happy:] Hey, there’s a Linux version of that program I like

[Guy looking disappointed:] Closed Source, no ARM support

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    3 days ago

    RISC vs CISC doesn’t really matter. Both have heavily borrowed from each other. The big differences are design goals, x86 processors are targeting higher power processing with few very fast cores while Arm and Risc V mostly target embedded and low power computing or a huge number of smaller cores.