From: lkcl Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 08:58:12 +0000 (+0100) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Tag: opf_rfc_ls005_v1~2397 X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2f18365b128f77006fd059580b1745724c8106e1;p=libreriscv.git --- diff --git a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn index 6b0cc85d3..92173807a 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn @@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ which illustrates a catastrophic rabbit-hole taken by Industry Giants ARM, Intel, AMD, since the 90s (over 3 decades) whereby SIMD, an Order(N^6) opcode proliferation nightmare, with its mantra "make it easy for hardware engineers, let software sort out the mess" literally -overwhelming programmers. Worse than that, specialists in charging -clients Optimisation Services are finding that AVX-512, to take an +overwhelming programmers. Specialists charging +clients for assembly-code Optimisation Services are finding that AVX-512, +to take an example, is anything but optimal: overall performance of AVX-512 actually *decreases* even as power consumption goes up.