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move dst, src, src -- I could stop right here, but wait, there is more! lui, auipc -- because two instructions are better than a simple move.b or move.w. Reall

move dst, src, src -- I could stop right here, but wait, there is more! lui, auipc -- because two instructions are better than a simple move.b or move.w. Really, what nonsense. sx, ux - I'm speechless at that nonsense. bltu, bgeu -- because blt and bge just weren't enough -- who designs a processor like this? lb, lh, lhu, lbu, sltiu instead of move.b, why? I challenge the sales pitch of making more nonsensical instructions amounting to a simpler processor design! (Boy does this make me mad.) It's not a slur, it really is utterly retarded, especially if one used to program an elegant microprocessor like the UltraSPARC or the Motorola 68000; even the MOS 6502 is more elegant. But to each his own, live and let live, right? Well why then must this botched processor constantly be sold and paraded as the greatest thing since sliced bread, a non plus ultra of processors, when it isn't?

DanBC 7y ago
Plenty of HN readers have children with severe learning disability. Using the word "retard"[1] is likely to attract downvotes. [1] Unless you're talking about progress or watch mechanisms.
- Annatar 7y ago
  That's exactly what I'm writing about, progress. RISC-V is not an advancement. What is opposite of advancement? In a system, it's either regression or retardation. And expecting people outside of the Puritan U. S. to abide by the same political correctness norms is extremely rude, inconsiderate and exclusionist -- using those same politically correct norms no less, which is to say, the U. S. should ban political correctness, and do so yesterday for the benefit of everyone.
  - DanBC 7y ago
    I don't care what words you use. I'm just telling you that when you describe people as retards you're going to get downvotes, and I'm telling you why that is. I'm not American and I don't live in the US.
    - Annatar 7y ago
      I didn't describe people as retarded, but their work. Even very smart people often do dumb things.
      - DanBC 7y ago
        When you say things like this... > mnemonics and programming model is so retarded ...you are going to get downvoted. This is because people who speak English as a first language understand you to mean "this is stupid, like a retard". They don't understand you to mean "this is delayed, like a watch mechanism would be adjusted". You can keep arguing that you didn't mean what you said, but at least two people are telling you how your words are being interpreted.
        Annatar 7y ago
        ...you are going to get downvoted. I would be a sad excuse of a being if I feared what some people on a random forum will think of me, or "downvote" me in some arbitrary, imaginative system. The entire thing is a delusion. Not singling out anyone in particular but I'm a formed adult and have been for several decades, and I do not require upbringing, id est, anyone telling me how to behave or what not to write. I will write it how I want and I shall not fear arbitrary decisions based on some arbitrary policies someone somewhere thought up. If that gets me down-voted or even banned, I will not let it bother me, as life does not revolve around arbitrary websites trying to tell one how to behave and think and I will damn myself into oblivion before I allow someone to impose such a thing on me. Lest we forget: I'm the only one who decides that, and I'm not allowing anyone to control my thinking or writing.

DanBC 7y ago

Plenty of HN readers have children with severe learning disability. Using the word "retard"[1] is likely to attract downvotes. [1] Unless you're talking about progress or watch mechanisms.

Annatar 7y ago
That's exactly what I'm writing about, progress. RISC-V is not an advancement. What is opposite of advancement? In a system, it's either regression or retardation. And expecting people outside of the Puritan U. S. to abide by the same political correctness norms is extremely rude, inconsiderate and exclusionist -- using those same politically correct norms no less, which is to say, the U. S. should ban political correctness, and do so yesterday for the benefit of everyone.
- DanBC 7y ago
  I don't care what words you use. I'm just telling you that when you describe people as retards you're going to get downvotes, and I'm telling you why that is. I'm not American and I don't live in the US.
  - Annatar 7y ago
    I didn't describe people as retarded, but their work. Even very smart people often do dumb things.
    - DanBC 7y ago
      When you say things like this... > mnemonics and programming model is so retarded ...you are going to get downvoted. This is because people who speak English as a first language understand you to mean "this is stupid, like a retard". They don't understand you to mean "this is delayed, like a watch mechanism would be adjusted". You can keep arguing that you didn't mean what you said, but at least two people are telling you how your words are being interpreted.
      - Annatar 7y ago
        ...you are going to get downvoted. I would be a sad excuse of a being if I feared what some people on a random forum will think of me, or "downvote" me in some arbitrary, imaginative system. The entire thing is a delusion. Not singling out anyone in particular but I'm a formed adult and have been for several decades, and I do not require upbringing, id est, anyone telling me how to behave or what not to write. I will write it how I want and I shall not fear arbitrary decisions based on some arbitrary policies someone somewhere thought up. If that gets me down-voted or even banned, I will not let it bother me, as life does not revolve around arbitrary websites trying to tell one how to behave and think and I will damn myself into oblivion before I allow someone to impose such a thing on me. Lest we forget: I'm the only one who decides that, and I'm not allowing anyone to control my thinking or writing.