[Libre-soc-dev] scalar instructions and SVP64

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:15 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I can however imagine that adding a special case for VL==0 could result in
> > many more gates/complication for the OoO/scoreboard execution engine.
> >
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> That's handled in the fetch pipeline before the scheduler in the VL-loop
> stage, so the stuff after that doesn't know/care since the instructions are
> removed before then.

this is factually wrong.  explained already.

l.