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popgoescarrot
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popgoescarrot
10y ago
Based on your behavior in this comment thread -- downvoting comments that give valid criticism of the RISC-V ISA -- I have to conclude that the reason the RISC-V folks chose not to reuse a patent-unencumbered ISA such as SH2 or MIPS32 (minu
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popgoescarrot
10y ago
If RISC-V is supposed to scale down to the low end, why doesn't it have delay slots? On an implementation with a simple instruction pipeline, delay slots not only improve performance, they also simplify the hardware.