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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by hun3 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @10:19PM (#47331126)
It was kind of an experiment from start. Some ideas turned out to be good, so we keep them. Some ideas turned out not to be good, so we fix them with extensions.
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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by pjmlp on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:42AM (#47332334)
The problem with hardware expirements is that people owning the hardware are stuck with experiments.
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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by rbanffy on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @04:38AM (#47333069)
If your hardware is new, you get the nicest extensions though. You just don’t use the bad parts in your code.
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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by pjmlp on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @04:40AM (#47333084)
Sure, if you are developing software for the computer you own, instead of supporting everyone.
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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by ahartmetz on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:18AM (#47334155)
I mean, that is often what you do in embedded computing: you (re)sell hardware with one particular application.
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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by eru on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:38AM (#47362304)
Re-compile?
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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by nsvd2 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:19AM (#47333776)
Sure, but if you bought a dev board with an experimental ISA I think you knew what you were getting in to.
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