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A comment on Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V. Parent comment

Re:Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witche... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @12:51PM (#41369725)
complexity that the compiler removes doesn't have to be handled by the CPU at runtime
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Re:Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witche... by Suppafly on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:28PM (#41371035)
Sure but that's not necessarily at odds with "programmer conveniences or other such cleverness" is it?
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Re:Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witche... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @09:49PM (#41375212)
it is in the sense that those are programmer conveniences only for assembly programmers and Riscv's view is that to the extent possible the assembly programmer interface should largely be handled by psuedo-instructions that disappear when your go to machine code rather than making the chip deal with them
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