[Libre-soc-dev] Hardware-accelerated specialized instructions

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On 12/10/20, Cole Poirier <colepoirier at gmail.com> wrote:

> opcodes and the speedup they provide for each algorithm. It's nice
> (read essential) that we get to use data to guide our development
> instead of using a more blind approach.

indeed.

the fundamental assumption is that we do not need to go the full route
of hundreds of insanely specialised dedicated units.

the more specialised the less flexibility.  the less flexibility the
slimmer the chance they will be useful in the future.

look at that 32 8888 to 16 1555 pixel instruction in VSX.  great in
1998, f*****g useless in 2021.

l.