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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 Suppafly on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:26PM (#41371005)
>quite a few RISC-style instructions require multiple (sometimes many) clock cycles to complete, such as mul/div, floating point math

Which seems like stuff you want support for, but this is seemingly arguing against?

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Re:Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witche... by enragedcacti on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:59PM (#41371452)
It seems contradictory because the "one clock per instruction" is mostly a misconception, at least with respect to anything even remotely modern.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/14509

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