Comment by smolder Comment by smolder 10 months ago 2 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News Much like juggling with your feet instead of hands is subjectively worse.
Copy Link snvzz 10 months ago Collapse Comment - From a hardware perspective, juggling is better without flags and without unnecessary addressing modes.Neither are concepts RISC-V invented, but rather, adopted. Ideas that have been plenty tested out there, and proven beneficial.Large body of evidence trumps intuition and guesswork. Most of this is documented in the spec itself and/or in:Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson) Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link smolder 10 months ago Parent Collapse Comment - I just meant that it's somewhat unergonomic when dealing with the instruction set directly, FWIW. Thanks for the reference. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link smolder 10 months ago Parent Collapse Comment - I just meant that it's somewhat unergonomic when dealing with the instruction set directly, FWIW. Thanks for the reference. Reply View | 0 replies
From a hardware perspective, juggling is better without flags and without unnecessary addressing modes.
Neither are concepts RISC-V invented, but rather, adopted. Ideas that have been plenty tested out there, and proven beneficial.
Large body of evidence trumps intuition and guesswork. Most of this is documented in the spec itself and/or in:
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson)