[HN Gopher] John Mashey on RISC/CISC (1991)
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John Mashey on RISC/CISC (1991)
 
Author : goranmoomin
Score  : 12 points
Date   : 2022-12-31 13:47 UTC (9 hours ago)
 
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| dang wrote:
| Related:
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|  _John Mashey on RISC /CISC_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9811397 - July 2015 (4
| comments)
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| Others?
 
| KerrAvon wrote:
| Would love Mashey's thoughts on RISC V, but AFAICT he left the
| business a couple of decades ago.
 
  | zozbot234 wrote:
  | Yes but RISC-V is very risc-y by the criteria Mashey proposes
  | here. The one thing that arguably doesn't fit much is the
  | multiple insn sizes, and real-world RISC-V implementations have
  | only two, at 2 or 4 bytes. That's still very low compared to
  | historical CISC. And I think the atomic instructions do RMW to
  | memory, but they carefully avoid complicated addres modes; they
  | even dispense with register+immediate offset.
 
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