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54 points

What, you don’t have a special command to Compare Unsigned values in register C vs result register K? or Floating-point Addition with Parenthesis, so store the value for use on the next cycle?

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I still don’t know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle

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When returning from kernel code, one should issue Drop Execution Ring Privileges, of course.

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Its been in RISC V for decades.

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I wouldn’t really characterize fourteen years as “decades.”

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IT years are similar to dog years, an IT year is multiple normal human years, so 14 IT years is certainly IT decades.

algernon nods sagely

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I’m pretty sure fused add multiply with store is part of the AVX instruction set.

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