From 9838a07d47981eee66789424d59a35bb9c459262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 22:23:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn index 04c20e945..231cc542f 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn @@ -1108,7 +1108,8 @@ intrinsics in general-purpose compute to make programmer's lives easier. A classic example being the Cell Processor (Sony PS3) which required programmers to use DMA to schedule processing tasks. These specialist high-performance architectures are only tolerated for -as long as they are useful. +as long as there is no equivalent performant alternative that is +easier to program. Combining SVP64 with ZOLC and OpenCAPI can produce an extremely powerful architectural base that fits well with intrinsics embedded into standard -- 2.30.2