Comment by camel-cdr

> Simplicity in the CPU hardware may reduce the probability of hardware bugs, but it increases the probability of software bugs, because the missing hardware features must be implemented at a much greater cost in software, like in the case with the missing integer overflow detection of RISC-V, which causes most RISC-V programs to omit overflow checks, increasing the chances of undetected bugs.

Since I've got a SpacemiT K3 board my self now, I though I test it again:

I compiled microjs with both tinycc and chibicc, which where both compiled for the target platform with and without -ftrapv:

    Slowdown Zen1: tinycc: 1.34%, chibicc: -0.3% (slight speedup somehow?)
    Slowdown X100: tinycc:  0.1%, chibicc:  3.4%

Last time I did full clang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328214#47342362 And there was minimal slowdown (sometimes speedup) on x86, Arm and RISC-V. It was pointed out that llvm mostly uses size_t, however chibicc and tinycc use int as their default type, so there should be lots of overflow checking.