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>Their stance Citation needed. >is basically 'instruction fusion will fix everything'. Wherever I've seen people involved with RISC-V talk about fusion[0], t
by snvzz 4y ago
>Their stance
Citation needed.
>is basically 'instruction fusion will fix everything'.
Wherever I've seen people involved with RISC-V talk about fusion[0], the impression I got is the opposite; it is a minor, completely optional gimmick to them.
0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614034
- jabl 4y agohttps://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318 https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318 is a widely cited paper that argues that simple and orthogonal ISA's are preferable, as fusion can fix up those common cases like more complicated addressing modes that other ISA's have in the base ISA.