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Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by zozbot234 on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:19AM (#45179082)
> I feel like encoding scalar fmacc with three sources and seperate destinations and rounding modes was a huge waste of encoding space

This might be easily solved by defining new lighter varieties of the F/D/Q extensions (under new "Z" names) that just don't include the fmacc insn blocks and reserve them for extension. (Of course, these new extensions would themselves be incompatible with the full F/D/Q extensions, effectively deprecating them for general use and relegating them to special-purpose uses where the FMACC encodings are genuinely useful.) Something to think about if the 32-bit insn encoding space becomes excessively scarce.

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