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Has anybody thought of running code directly on RISC instruction set that AMD x86s are based one

I don't know if this holds true, or holds true now. Years ago I read AMD x86s are RISC architecture that translates x86 (and I assume x86_64) machine code to its own internal formal. Now I don't know if I misunderstood (or the article writer misunderstood) microcode running on the AMD. Which is not of course unique to the AMDs.

If AMDs run some sort of intermediate machine code, you use that directly?, in other words can you compile to AMDs RISC instruction set directly rather than x86_64 ASM.

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