Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More

Re:Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving an... by zozbot234 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:03PM (#22952168)

Why? NEON operates on registers, so the load-store principle is still fully in effect. And it maps directly to special-purpose hardware.

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Re:Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving an... by arnd on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:45AM (#22966943)

32-bit Arm has some features that make it less RISC-like than others:

- Predication as a major architectural feature -- every instruction can be conditionally executed - Complex load-store instructions: ldm/stm can operate on a large set of registers in a single instruction, including performing a branch by loading into the instruction pointer - 16-bit Thumb instruction format (also optionally present in RISC-V and newer MIPS)

64-bit Arm mostly drops all of the above and is basically a traditional RISC implementation.

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