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authorlkcl <lkcl@web>
Sat, 7 May 2022 00:58:24 +0000 (01:58 +0100)
committerIkiWiki <ikiwiki.info>
Sat, 7 May 2022 00:58:24 +0000 (01:58 +0100)
openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn

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@@ -294,7 +294,8 @@ of the problem-space:
   go as low as 8-bit arithmetic, even 8-bit Floating-Point for
   high-performance AI. Rather than waste opcode space adding all
   such operations at different bitwidths, let the prefix
-  *redefine* the element width.
+  *redefine* (override) the element width, without actually altering
+  the Scalar ISA at all.
 * "Reordering" of the assumption of linear sequential element
   access, for Matrices, rotations, transposition, Convolutions,
   DCT, FFT, Parallel Prefix-Sum and other common transformations