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Yeah. I'm not qualified to judge the quality of an instruction set, but this writer destroyed all credibility with me by claiming that an undergraduate could de
by rm445 5y ago
Yeah. I'm not qualified to judge the quality of an instruction set, but this writer destroyed all credibility with me by claiming that an undergraduate could design a better architecture (than this enormous collective effort) in a term. It's right up there with claiming you could create Spotify in a weekend or whatever.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoYou say that as though Design By Committee isn't a thing.
- Tuna-Fish 5y agoExcept that the problem with RISC-V isn't even design by committee. Even the most dysfunctional committee would probably not fall into pits that RISC-V managed to. The most credible explanation for it's misfeatures I've heard is just plain bad taste and overly rigid adherence to principle over practicality by it's original designers.
- gary_0 5y agoThe entire post is full of hyperbole, but the example they show looks like a legitimate complaint.
- rbanffy 5y agoI designed an ISA (and a CPU) as an undergrad, and I assure you that, while it was very cool (stack-oriented, ASM looked like Forth), it'd have horrendous performance these days.