[Libre-soc-isa] [Bug 213] SimpleV Standard writeup needed

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213

--- Comment #66 from Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #65)
> (In reply to Jacob Lifshay from comment #64)
> 
> > [... stuff for me to analyse and think about...]
> 
> > Vectorized CRs still have a bunch of the above mess, because they aren't 1
> > bit per lane. Also, they have a ISA-level limiting effect on large VLs
> > because of quickly running out of the 64 CRs when you need multiple masks
> > (common in non-trivial shaders).
> 
> yes and no: remember they're 4-bit.  so that's 64x4 bits worth of stuff that
> can be used for vector masks = 256 bits.  if we run out of those we're doing
> something wrong :)

the problem is that all 4 bits in each CR field is written by a compare (the
most common mask generating operation), effectively changing it to be only
useful for 1 mask lane per CR field, since all other masks that could be stored
in the CRs are overwritten.

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