RISC-V inferior to ARMv8

By: rwessel (robertwessel.delete@this.yahoo.com), December 21, 2018 2:13 pm
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Adrian (a.delete@this.acm.org) on December 20, 2018 8:51 pm wrote:
> Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com) on December 20, 2018 3:24 pm wrote:
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> > I agree with everything you said except pre-indexed/post-indexed addressing modes.
> > Those, IMHO, are misfeatures, esp. for integer load instructions.
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> I do not understand why you believe that this are misfeatures.
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> The auto-indexed addressing modes introduced by IBM 801 and copied by ARM, PA-RISC, POWER and others
> are the only way of coding any kind of loop without any extra instructions for address computations.
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> The previous kinds of auto-indexed addressing modes allowed only a small set of increments
> or decrements, so they were suitable only for certain kinds of loops, not for any loop.
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> The only other addressing mode that can be chosen as an alternative for the IBM auto-indexed addressing,
> because it also allows the elimination of the extra instructions in many kinds of loops, including in the
> most frequent, but not in all loops, is the 3-component addressing mode (base, index & shift) introduced
> by VAX and also adopted by Intel 80386. However, the implementation of this addressing mode seems more difficult,
> because even many modern processors do not succeed to perform it at maximum speed in all cases.
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> When neither IBM auto-indexed modes nor VAX 3-component addressing are available, there are
> many kinds of loops which cannot be coded with a minimal number of instructions because address
> computation instructions must be added besides the data handling instructions.
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> 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.
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> 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.


Or, do like S/360, and roll the index increment and comparison into the conditional branch. S/360 BXH and BXLE add one register to the index, compare the result to the other, and branch if the result is high, or less-than-or-equal.
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            RISC-V inferior to ARMv8anon2018/12/22 04:53 AM
              Execution runtimes and SpectreFoo_2018/12/22 07:02 AM
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              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Michael S2018/12/21 03:31 AM
                RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Adrian2018/12/21 04:23 AM
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              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8juanrga2018/12/21 11:36 AM
              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Doug S2018/12/21 01:02 PM
            RISC-V inferior to ARMv8juanrga2018/12/21 11:23 AM
          RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Adrian2018/12/21 12:21 AM
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            RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Adrian2018/12/21 04:44 AM
              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8anon2018/12/21 06:24 AM
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              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/21 05:28 AM
          RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Michael S2018/12/21 03:27 AM
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              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/21 04:43 PM
                RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Travis Downs2018/12/21 06:45 PM
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                    RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Travis Downs2018/12/22 07:54 AM
                      RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/22 11:32 AM
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                RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/22 05:58 AM
                  RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Travis Downs2018/12/22 08:03 AM
                    RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/22 08:22 AM
                      RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Travis Downs2018/12/22 08:40 AM
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        RISC-V inferior to ARMv8AnonQ2018/12/22 09:13 AM
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        RISC-V initial takedmcq2018/12/21 04:23 AM
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        Not Stanford MIPS but commercial MIPSMichael S2018/12/23 04:49 AM
        Not Stanford MIPS but commercial MIPSdmcq2018/12/23 05:52 AM
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