Inventing a new Scalar ISA from scratch is over a decade-long task
including simulators and compilers: OpenRISC 1200 took 12 years to
-mature. A Vector or Packed SIMD ISA to reach stable *general-purpose*
+mature. Stable ISAs require Standards and Compliance Suites that
+take more. A Vector or Packed SIMD ISA to reach stable *general-purpose*
auto-vectorisation compiler support has never been achieved in the
history of computing, not with the combined resources of ARM, Intel,
AMD, MIPS, Sun Microsystems, SGI, Cray, and many more. (*Hand-crafted