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A comment on ESP32-S31. Parent comment

Re:ESP32-S31 by throwaway81523 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:46PM (#48388083)
Why on earth SIMD instead of the risc-v vector extensions that are supposed to be better?
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Re:ESP32-S31 by andynerd on Thursday June 04, 2026 @05:00AM (#48396035)
For compatibility and simplicity. Most SIMD instructions in P4 and S31 (compatible with P4 rev 3.x) are an direct evolution from S3. Espressif just doesn't want to rewrite their optimized assembly libraries.
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