Comment by crest

RISC-V lacks a bunch of really useful relatively easy to implement instructions and most extensions are truly optional so you can't rely on them. That's the problem if you let a bunch of academics turn your ISA into a paper mill.

In theory you can spend a lot of effort to make a flawed ISA perform, but it will be neither easy nor pretty e.g. real world Linux distros can't distribute optimised packages for every uarch from dual-issue in-order RV64GC to 8-wide OoO RV64 with all the bells and whistles. Only in (deeply) embedded systems can you retarget the toolchain and optimise for each damn architecture subset you encounter.