irony comment on how one line creates a massive array of gates

diff --git a/src/soc/fu/mul/main_stage.py b/src/soc/fu/mul/main_stage.py
index 3d620367d5693b6d41ccdfbe4e57fcbbd930c7bb..68bcf47d5df861ec71708dac7b3b26121a3e4dc4 100644 (file)
--- a/src/soc/fu/mul/main_stage.py
+++ b/src/soc/fu/mul/main_stage.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ class MulMainStage2(PipeModBase):
         a, b, o = self.i.a, self.i.b, self.o.o
 
         # actual multiply (TODO: split into stages)
+        # it's ironic that one line of code can create 15,000 gates...
         comb += o.eq(a * b)
 
         ###### xer and context, all pass-through #####