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From the introduction: Given Intel’s and AMD’s access to the latest process nodes, 4+ GHz clock speeds, superscalar execution, several dozen cores and hundreds
by legulere 9y ago
From the introduction:
Given Intel’s and AMD’s access to the latest process nodes, 4+ GHz clock speeds, superscalar execution, several dozen cores and hundreds of GB of memory in a server, a near native speed RISC-V binary translator is likely to be the fastest RISC-V implementation and most practical build environment for things such as operating system distributions for some years to come.
- sigjuice 9y agoAny particular reason why build environments cannot rely on cross compilation for producing OS distributions?
- adrianmonk 9y agoThey can, but this is more universal. Also, I could see an argument for it if your build includes automated testing and you want to run your actual binaries (albeit via emulation) in those tests.
- dmitrygr 9y agoThat also explains why nobody should spend time making riscv software right now - no chance of competitive speeds with Intel/AMD.
- IshKebab 9y agoI believe it is competing initially with ARM. There are already RISC-V chips that are competitive with Cortex M4 and similar.
- dmitrygr 9y agoWell, there are designs that claim to be. They are neither ordereable in quantities of 100,000+ nor do they include any peripherals or even built-in flash.
- legulere 9y agoThat’s a it of a chicken egg problem. Also with ARM64, Linux distributons in the beginning had problems finding fitting server hardware for their build servers.