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Fragmentation is often cited as a fundamental cause of Android’s shortfalls, which doesn’t seem like a minor impact. Fragmentation turns out OK when there are
by ip26 4y ago
Fragmentation is often cited as a fundamental cause of Android’s shortfalls, which doesn’t seem like a minor impact.
Fragmentation turns out OK when there are strong convergent forces pruning unsuccessful branches or pulling them back into the fold. This can even be good, because you can experiment & evolve. However, when various implementations are comparable yet different in a hundred little ways, neither is selected against and the problem sprawls.
It remains to be seen whether there are any strong reconvergent forces acting on RISC-V.
- snvzz 4y ago>However, when various implementations are comparable yet different in a hundred little ways, neither is selected against and the problem sprawls. Only RISC-V can ratify specs. And yet, hardware implementations are desirable for testing specs before ratification. Chips that have non-standard extensions will run code built for the standard specs that they implement just fine.