alt Hacker NewsYeah it's a few years behind ARM, but not that many. Imagine trying to compile this on ARM 10 years ago. It would be similarly painful.
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hackerInnen • yesterday at 9:00 PM
This. While I doubt that there will be a good (whatever that means) desktop risc-v CPU anytime soon, I do think that it will eventually catch up in embedded systems and special applications. Maybe even high core count servers.
It just takes time, people who believe in it and tons of money. Will see where the journey goes, but I am a big risc-v believer
> Imagine trying to compile this on ARM 10 years ago
Cortex A57 is 14 years old and is significantly faster than the 9 year old Cortex A55 these RISC-V cores are being compared against.
So yes it's many years behind. Many, many years.