Comment by Suppafly
1 year ago
>quite a few RISC-style instructions require multiple (sometimes many) clock cycles to complete, such as mul/div, floating point math
Which seems like stuff you want support for, but this is seemingly arguing against?
1 year ago
>quite a few RISC-style instructions require multiple (sometimes many) clock cycles to complete, such as mul/div, floating point math
Which seems like stuff you want support for, but this is seemingly arguing against?
It seems contradictory because the "one clock per instruction" is mostly a misconception, at least with respect to anything even remotely modern.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/14509