From: lkcl <lkcl@web>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 22:18:17 +0000 (+0100)
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X-Git-Tag: opf_rfc_ls005_v1~1694
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=65aeb96fc8cda74cfed078e1e92f51a83a45c52c;p=libreriscv.git

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diff --git a/openpower/sv.mdwn b/openpower/sv.mdwn
index 876216536..ddde62b44 100644
--- a/openpower/sv.mdwn
+++ b/openpower/sv.mdwn
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ Comparative instruction count:
 * ARM SVE: around 4,000 instructions, prerequisite: NEON. 
 * ARM SVE2: around 1,000 instructions, prerequisite: SVE
 * Intel AVX-512: around 4,000 instructions, prerequisite AVX, AVX2,
-  AVX-128 and AVX-256.
+  AVX-128 and AVX-256 which in turn critically rely on the rest of
+  x86, for a grand total of well over 10,000 instructions.
 * RISV-V RVV: 192 instructions, prerequisite 96 Scalar RV64GC instructions
 * SVP64: **five** instructions, 24-bit prefixing of
   prerequisite SFS (150) or