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		d33 on Nov 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V Could it be because of some patents that made it impossible to do it properly?

nickik on Nov 1, 2020 | [–]

No. The just don't share the opinions. RISC-V is designed to go from the smallest possible core to high performance compute. Bit instructions will be in the 'B' extension.

ThrowawayR2 on Nov 1, 2020 | [–]

Bitwise rotation instructions date back to at least the PDP-8. Even if they were patentable, the patents would have expired long ago.

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