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Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? by floatboth on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:12AM (#19461753)
Are there delay slots in modern / 64-bit MIPS? I've heard they're only really present in very old MIPS
Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? by JoachimS on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:26AM (#19461846)
Good question. I took a look. What is being released is the Release 6 ISA. And I stand corrected, according to wikipedia that ISA doesn't have delay slots:

MIPS32/MIPS64 Release 6 in 2014 added[22] the following:

    a new family of branches with no delay slot:
        unconditional branches (BC) and branch-and-link (BALC) with a 26-bit offset,
        conditional branch on zero/non-zero with a 21-bit offset,
        full set of signed and unsigned conditional branches compare between two registers (e.g. BGTUC) or a register against zero (e.g. BGTZC),
        full set of branch-and-link which compare a register against zero (e.g. BGTZALC).
    index jump instructions with no delay slot designed to support large absolute addresses.
    instructions to load 16-bit immediates at bit position 16, 32 or 48, allowing to easily generate large constants.
    PC-relative load instructions, as well as address generation with large (PC-relative) offsets.
    bit-reversal and byte-alignment instructions (previously only available with the DSP extension).
    multiply and divide instructions redefined so that they use a single register for their result).
    instructions generating truth values now generate all zeroes or all ones instead of just clearing/setting the 0-bit,
    instructions using a truth value now only interpret all-zeroes as false instead of just looking at the 0-bit.
Removed infrequently used instructions:

    some conditional moves
    branch likely instructions (deprecated in previous releases).
    integer overflow trapping instructions with 16-bit immediate
    integer accumulator instructions (together HI/LO registers, moved to the DSP Application-Specific Extension)
    unaligned load instructions (LWL and LWR), (requiring that most ordinary loads and stores support misaligned access, possibly via trapping and with the addition of a new instruction (BALIGN))
Reorganized the instruction encoding, freeing space for future expansions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture#MIPS32/MIPS6...

Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? by andrekandre on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:59AM (#19462083)
seems until very recently it still had delay slots[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture (see mips64 release 6)