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32-bit ARM had literally every instruction be conditional.
by Dwedit 1y ago
32-bit ARM had literally every instruction be conditional.
- phire 1y agoAnd that design is generally regarded to have been a mistake, results in very bad code density. ARM went out of their way to remove it. Multiple times, with both AArch64 and the various implementations of Thumb.
- chasil 1y agoI can't imagine the pressure at Acorn, with the Olivetti acquisition impending, on Furber and Wilson to deliver their design unoptimized for the required task. A CPU for this century is not the one for last?
- throwaway81523 1y agoRisc-V has always seemed like a 20th century processor to me, heh.
- pjmlp 1y agoGiven its origin from MIPS, it kind of is.