From 7739c897d25f80f7bbdbb15a077770a315ab6c3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:46:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv.mdwn | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/openpower/sv.mdwn b/openpower/sv.mdwn index a78195a29..140867672 100644 --- a/openpower/sv.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv.mdwn @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Fundamental design principles: * Simplicity of introduction and implementation on the existing OpenPOWER ISA * Effectively a hardware for-loop, pausing PC, issuing multiple scalar operations * Augments ("tags") existing instructions, providing Vectorisation "context" rather than adding new ones. +* Does not modify or deviate from the underly scalar OpenPOWER ISA unless it provides significant performance or other advantage to do so in the Vector space (dropping XER.SO and OE=1 for example) Advantages of these design principles: -- 2.30.2