Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 4 May 2022 at 06:29:55 UTC, max haughton wrote:
> Native code is indeed not *exactly* native code however calling 
> a CPU an interpreter is either false or requires such a loose 
> definition of interpreter that it loses most of its descriptive 
> power.

In this context there is no difference between a VM and hardware. 
If you can build hardware for the VM they should be considered 
similar.

  > Basically all CPUs translate an ISA into some kind of
> internal state, big processors just happen to have an extra
> 

The term RISC came into use to distinguish those that did require 
decoding from those that did not.

> Also, I suppose this is mostly nomenclature, the instructions 
> are translated into micro-operations/uops whereas microcode as 
> a term is usually reserved for either extremely

Microcode refers to the instruction sequence that is used 
internally after decoding.