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Veedrac on June 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ara: A 1 GHz+ Scalable and Energy-Efficient RISC-V...

What's the rush? The instructions can be emulated in the meantime at a passable speed.

ncmncm on June 8, 2019 [–]

If they could be emulated at passable speed, I would not need them.

Veedrac on June 9, 2019 | [–]

Could you be more specific? What are you doing on a RISC-V board where emulated popcnt loses more than 10-20% of your performance?

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