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With enough effort, you can make a brick fly. X86 proves this. But if you are designing a new flying device, despite the fact that you could make a brick fly, y
by dmitrygr 2mo ago
With enough effort, you can make a brick fly. X86 proves this. But if you are designing a new flying device, despite the fact that you could make a brick fly, you probably don’t want to design a brick. Why make it harder on yourself?
Riscv took all this information in, and designed a very, very good brick.
- ant6n 2mo agoWait, so RiscV is still also a brick, like x86?
- dmitrygr 2mo agoin my opinion, yes. Given that it was a clean-sheet design with no legacy to support, and that it was done so recently as to have easily had the benefit of all the lessons of x86, mips, arm, sparc, powerpc, etc, yes, it left a lot of obvious improvements on the table.
- crote 2mo agoWhen everyone is trying to make bricks fly, having the most aerodynamic brick probably isn't a bad thing.