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Well, I think this can be answered by considering that even under normal conditions there are transistors that are used as much as in your hypothetical scenario. For example, the instruction decoding logic is invoked for every instruction. Since all logic transistors are the same (afaik), I don't think that using one type of instruction would significantly reduce the life-time of your CPU.


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