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Top Ten Fallacies About RISC-V

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  1. FlippantGod
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    This reads like a marketing puff piece, written for an audience that mistakes ISAs and CPUs, but I expect it will mostly reach an audience familiar with RISC-V. And while fallacies can just be...

    This reads like a marketing puff piece, written for an audience that mistakes ISAs and CPUs, but I expect it will mostly reach an audience familiar with RISC-V.

    And while fallacies can just be false statements, sometimes fallacies arise from erroneous reasoning and/or logic. These ones are simply false statements, which makes them much less interesting and more like marketing fodder.

    And the bullet points are marketing at best and misleading or wrong at worst.

    "RISC-V also provides a few features not found in another popular RISC ISA, the ARMv8 and its successors:

    RISC-V offers compact instructions that reduce code size."

    Wow, compressed instructions! That's so cool and nothing like Thumb!

    Look, I've gotten my hands dirty with some RISC-V logic in chisel, but this article is just not that great IMO.

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