Given how much cruft x86 has, there's a comments about world class experts above saying the gap between ARM and x86 is maybe 5%, at best, and probably less. Th

Given how much cruft x86 has, there's a comments about world class experts above saying the gap between ARM and x86 is maybe 5%, at best, and probably less. There's realistically probably no reason RISC-V cannot work, expect that the number of techniques needed to implement a leading edge high performance evaluator is enormous.