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"... and ever-growing RISC-V instruction set." RISC: "Reduced instruction set computer" ?
by ISL 7y ago
"... and ever-growing RISC-V instruction set."
RISC: "Reduced instruction set computer"
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- mekane8 7y agoMy thoughts exactly!
- zozbot234 7y agoRISC-V is extensible and keeps developing new official extensions that add more and more instructions. The RISC-V baseline doesn't even have integer multiply or divide!
- flibbityflob 7y agoThe article is probably describing RISC-V as growing in popularity, not number of instructions. The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions." Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.