> This is now on every student's resume, as a project for their computer architecture class. AFAICS the point is not to create the bestest fastest microarchite

> This is now on every student's resume, as a project for their computer architecture class. AFAICS the point is not to create the bestest fastest microarchitecture ever; I'm sure nobody, including the guys behind this jcore project, harbors any illusions of competing with high-performance cores from the likes of Intel or IBM on a shoestring budget. But rather, the point was to pick a decent ISA (for instance, SuperH is apparently the basis for ARM Thumb, so code density is quite good) with a (hopefully!) patent-free implementation. And with an ecosystem so you can actually use it. I'm pretty sure "every student's comp arch class project" doesn't include upstreamed support in the Linux kernel, GCC, binutils, GDB, strace etc.