@jsbarretto no other field has made me go so back and forth between "this is black magic" and "this is super simple"
Learning assembly: how the hell do you build a circuit to do this
Learning about microcode: aha, this is easy
Learning about pipelining: aaaand back to black magic
Building a pipelined CPU: oh, it really is that simple?
Learning about superscalar stuff: black magic again
@thezoq2 Yeah, I'm feeling this a lot now. Rapidly oscillating between total confusion and a feeling of 'why was this not obvious?'