RISC-V inferior to ARMv8

By: juanrga (noemail.delete@this.juanrga.com), December 21, 2018 10:23 am
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Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on December 20, 2018 11:10 pm wrote:
> Adrian (a.delete@this.acm.org) on December 20, 2018 8:51 pm wrote:
> > The RISC-V fans argue that the extra instructions do not matter, because a fast implementation will fuse
> > the address computation instructions with the data handling instructions, achieving the same throughput.
> >
> >
> > I do not agree, because I believe that it is stupid to code
> > the address computation with an extra instruction
> > word, when the same thing can be encoded with a couple of
> > bits in an addressing mode field and the instruction
> > decoder is also certainly simpler than the one that must fuse those instruction pairs.
>
>
> Aren't these differences due to the fact ARMv8 has evolved from previous ARM ISAs over a
> few decades of real world use that showed where the weak points were, whereas RISC-V is
> mostly from an academic ivory tower purist background with very little real world usage?
> Sometimes you find you must compromise your purist principles to produce a better result,
> which is why ARMv8 adopted some features that aren't considered traditionally RISC.
>
> The arguments made by the RISC-V fans sound a lot like arguments made by Itanium fans
> where the compiler would pick up the slack for the shortcomings, and the raw speed would
> enable it to beat all comers. But RISC-V fans aren't even claiming this will result in
> superior performance, only that it will be the same. If so, what's the point?
>
> They are trading complexity in instruction decode for dynamic execution complexity. I think the
> performance that x86 is able to attain has shown us that instruction decode complexity matters
> little if at all given modern transistor budgets. Getting wider to issue and execute those index
> calculations as separate instructions in parallel, on the other hand, requires very careful design
> to insure all paths have enough resources without escalating power draw too much.

ARM cores prove that the ISA matters a lot of. Recent Cortex and Apple cores can get similar performance to top x86 cores as Zen but at a fraction of the power, cost, and die area.
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      RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/20 01:31 PM
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