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There likely has been a discussion, but maybe not documentation of the trade offs and logic behind the decisions, which are hard to capture and usually verbose

There likely has been a discussion, but maybe not documentation of the trade offs and logic behind the decisions, which are hard to capture and usually verbose and meandering. The assumption here is that this fellow has discovered a flaw. Maybe that's the case or maybe it's not, but at this point my money is on the standards group and not one guy and his six day old blog.

KerrAvon 4y ago
In general — not necessarily this specific issue — I’d take the lone person pointing out a flaw. Things designed by committee are always compromises at best. Sometimes that’s good, and even necessary! But it doesn’t tend to lead to clean, elegant design. This could be both the right thing for RISC-V and a wart on the design for high-performance implementations.