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Cake day: December 20th, 2023

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  • RV64 has a maximum 32-bit instruction encoding

    I kinda expected that to happen, since there’s already enough to fit all required functions. So yeah, even this is not a good enough criteria for bit rating.

    those original 8-bit intructions still exist, and take up a huge part of the encoding space, cutting the number of n-bit instructions to more like 2^(n-7)

    err… they are still instructions, right? And they are implemented. I don’t see why you would negate that from the number of instructions.



















  • Silicates are everywhere! It’s hard to throw a rock without throwing one!

    If that’s all that’s needed to consider yourself having a basic understanding, then I already had it by the time I passed HS.

    Unfortunately, the Alt text doesn’t tell us the bar, so we can’t know how round we are.