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Re:How Secure Are RISC-V Chips? by willnonya on Sunday January 08, 2023 @10:11AM (#34299708)
The problem is that this only applies to the design and not the implementation. There is no perfect design and certainly no perfect implementations.
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Re:How Secure Are RISC-V Chips? by sylware on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:17AM (#34309496)
RISC-V would be seen as an "average" modern ISAs.

Like everything, it comes with trade-offs, and here some ISA design choices come straight from the experience accumulated on advanced CPU design. For instance, if I did understand well, the handling of arithmetics flags in RISC-V is what it is because of it makes out-of-order CPU design way easier.

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