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Exactly. It's really fascinating that people view this as an ideological/religious thing. It might even seem that some treat RISC-V as some sort of a cult? >

by wwtrv 3y ago

Exactly. It's really fascinating that people view this as an ideological/religious thing. It might even seem that some treat RISC-V as some sort of a cult? > CISC dogmatism Besides the fact that your understanding of what CISC/RISC means seems to be stuck in the 90s and the distinction is pretty much irrelevant at this point, you do actually realize that ARM is a RISC architecture? > blatantly refusing to accept simplicity has inherent value For microcontrollers? Sure. For high-end/general purpose chips? RISC-V cores will have to implement many 'optional' extension to become competitive.

snvzz 3y ago
>For microcontrollers? Sure. For high-end/general purpose chips? RISC-V cores will have to mplement many 'optional' extension to become competitive. >if RISC-V is to become competitive it will have to become much more complex as well. Yes, by CISC dogmatism, I was referring to this. >blatantly refusing to accept simplicity has inherent value With a touch of CISC propaganda: >seems to be stuck in the 90s and the distinction is pretty much irrelevant at this point Thankfully, you won't have to wait too long, now. RISC-V got on-par feature-wise with x86 and ARM, as of December 2021, while keeping itself simple. >RISC-V enables the best processors The very high performance implementations of RVA22+V will begin to appear as soon as next year. And that'll be the end of it. >RISC-V is inevitable.