From 394179b1dea43cdbcd12057b8b0781c50eb221d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 01:53:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn index 4633c74e5..74d7b4efb 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn @@ -199,11 +199,14 @@ The summary of advantages, then, of the Power ISA is that: * It has a 25-year software ecosystem, with RHEL, Fedora, Debian and more. +* Amongst many other features + it has Condition Registers which can be used by Branches, greatly + reducing pressure on the main register files. * IBM's extensive 20+ years of patents is available, royalty-free, to protect implementors as long as they are also members of the OpenPOWER Foundation * IBM designed and maintained the Power ISA as a Supercomputing - class ISA from its inception. + class ISA from its inception over 25 years ago. * Coherent distributed memory access is possible through OpenCAPI * Extensions to the Power ISA may be submitted through an External RFC Process that does not require membership of OPF. -- 2.30.2