From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 18:40:21 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: add C benefits
X-Git-Tag: convert-csv-opcode-to-binary~5714
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f7dc35b53405f34b81b2e4a446afa2d3f711e27;p=libreriscv.git

add C benefits
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diff --git a/simple_v_extension.mdwn b/simple_v_extension.mdwn
index ac935a5ba..c9fed0c65 100644
--- a/simple_v_extension.mdwn
+++ b/simple_v_extension.mdwn
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ Additionally it makes sense to *split out* the parallelism inherent within
 each of P and V, and to see if each of P and V then, in *combination* with
 a "best-of-both" parallelism extension, would work well.
 
+Furthermore, an additional goal of this proposal is to reduce the number
+of opcodes utilised by each of P and V as they currently stand, leveraging
+existing RISC-V opcodes where possible, and also potentially allowing
+P and V to make use of Compressed Instructions as a result.
+
 **TODO**: reword this to better suit this document:
 
 Having looked at both P and V as they stand, they're _both_ very much