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Suppafly on Aug 27, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the...

>quite a few RISC-style instructions require multiple (sometimes many) clock cycles to complete, such as mul/div, floating point math

Which seems like stuff you want support for, but this is seemingly arguing against?

enragedcacti on Aug 27, 2024 [–]

It seems contradictory because the "one clock per instruction" is mostly a misconception, at least with respect to anything even remotely modern.

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