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> How can riscv be “more mature” when mips was used in commercialised consumer and industrial devices 30 years ago? one thing i can think of is risc-v has done
by andrekandre 5y ago
> How can riscv be “more mature” when mips was used in commercialised consumer and industrial devices 30 years ago?
one thing i can think of is risc-v has done away with branch-delay slots... does modern mips isa still have those?
- azinman2 5y agoThat's not what mature means. Mature is that all edge cases have been explored, all kinds of random numerical computations have been expressed, tool chains & debuggers exists in many forms and are well supported, the chips have scaled from dish washers to RAD hardened satellites, etc etc
- gnulinux 5y agoI'm sorry, I am the GP who used the word "mature" up there. This is not what I meant. I was talking about there being a greater software community around RISC-V compared to MIPS these days. E.g. having kernel, software, compiler support etc... My bad if I misused some terminology.
- azinman2 5y agoYes there’s certainly more momentum right now for RISC-V. MIPS is the definition of mature, so mature it’s nearly dead.