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Subject: Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:04:22 -0400
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On 8/30/24 10:48, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <2024Aug29.151755@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
> anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
>> jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) writes:
>>> Android is apparently waiting for a new RISC-V instruction set
>>> extension;
>> Which one?
> 
> I don't know what its name is. It was proposed by Hans Boehm, and the
> Android team pointed me to this discussion on a RISC-V mailing list:
> 
> https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-unprivileged/topic/92916241
> 

The RV64A stuff?  I don't know about android but I would find
it limiting.  Kind of like having to work with C/C++17 concurrency
support without having to resort to inline assembly on x64. I
know risc-v thinks they solved the ABA problem with lr/sc but
they haven't in all cases.

Joe Seigh