Comment by phire
21 hours ago
> That's why it's so bizarre that the RISC-V design is so awful.
Not bizarre.
The design is a direct result of the biases of its initial designers, and its original intended use-case. And TBH, if you assess it by its original design criteria, it's actually pretty good.
It's just by the time RISC-V had escaped containment and was starting to become a general purpose open ISA, it was a little too late to start from the beginning and consider what the correct design criteria should even be.
Very true... but I can't help but note that basically every person I've ever met with significant experience with multiple architectures at this level, and not connected in some way to RISC-V, utterly hates the thing.
That feels like a "don't release yet" flag to me!
But I hear you.