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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What, you don't have a special command to Compare Unsigned values in register C vs result register K? or Floating-point Addition with Parenthesis, so store the value for use on the next cycle?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still don't know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

When returning from kernel code, one should issue Drop Execution Ring Privileges, of course.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its been in RISC V for decades.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't really characterize fourteen years as "decades."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

IT years are similar to dog years, an IT year is multiple normal human years, so 14 IT years is certainly IT decades.

algernon nods sagely

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

THAT'S how I'm supposed to get ten years of experience in a five year old technology

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just lie. What are they going to do? They don't know enought to realize they made an impossible request, they won't be able to tell the difference between 10 and 5 years experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just don't work there, seems like a company run by idiots

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

STEP 1: find company run by idiots

STEP 2: get them to give me a remote job

STEP 3: barely work at all

STEP 4: get second remote job and collect 2 paychecks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

"Algernon"? The monkey in your PFP? The nerdy kid in Canis Canem Edit a.k.a. Bully?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure fused add multiply with store is part of the AVX instruction set.