Marcus Geelnard

A long standing misconception that dates back to the RISC vs CISC debate of the 1980’s is that CISC ISA:s yield better machine code density than RISC ISA:s. At the time that was mostly true, but today (2022) the situation is different and such claims are no longer automatically true. Let us dissect the matter… …

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Fundamental flaws of SIMD ISAs (2021)

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According to Flynn’s taxonomy SIMD refers to a computer architecture that can process multiple data streams with a single instruction (i.e. “Single Instruction stream, Multiple Data streams”). There are different taxonomies, and within those several different sub-categories and architectures that classify as “SIMD”.