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This document was originally written several years ago. At the time I was working as an execution core verification engineer at Arm. The following points are coloured heavily by working in and around the execution cores of various processors. Apply a pinch of salt; points contain varying degrees of opinion.
It is still my opinion that RISC-V could be much better designed; though I will also say that if I was building a 32 or 64-bit CPU today I'd likely implement the architecture to benefit from the existing tooling.
Mostly based upon the RISC-V ISA spec v2.0. Some updates have been made for v2.2
The RISC-V ISA has pursued minimalism to a fault. There is a large emphasis on minimizing instruction count, normalizing encoding, etc. This pursuit of minimalism has resulted in false orthogonalities (such as reusing the same instruction for branches, calls and returns) and a requirement for superfluous instructions which impacts code density both in terms of size and
This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
"OpenPGP" refers to the OpenPGP protocol, in much the same way that HTML refers to the protocol that specifies how to write a web page. "GnuPG", "SequoiaPGP", "OpenPGP.js", and others are implementations of the OpenPGP protocol in the same way that Mozilla Firefox, Google Chromium, and Microsoft Edge refer to software packages that process HTML data.
Andy Thomason is a Senior Programmer at Genomics PLC. He has been witing graphics systems, games and compilers since the '70s and specialises in code performance.
$ dmesg
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// This is universal, works with Infura -- set provider accordingly | |
const ethers = require('ethers') | |
//const provider = ethers.getDefaultProvider('rinkeby') | |
const provider = new ethers.providers.JsonRpcProvider(process.env.WEB3_URL) | |
function hex_to_ascii(str1) { | |
var hex = str1.toString(); | |
var str = ''; | |
for (var n = 0; n < hex.length; n += 2) { |
These Parity client benchmarks were run to evaluate the optimizations made to the Parity bn
pairing library (link here)
By comparing pre- and post- benchmarks there is a significant improvement to the speed of multiple bilinear pairings that merits a reduction in the gas schedule.
The new benchmarks were run on branches that are currently outstanding pull requests into the Parity client (openethereum/parity-ethereum#10624) and the BN library (paritytech/bn#14).
The previous benchmarks were computed on 25 Oct 2018
extension String { | |
func localized(language: String = Locale.current.languageCode!, comment: String = "") -> String { | |
guard let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: language, ofType: "lproj") else { | |
return self | |
} | |
guard let bundle = Bundle(path: path) else { | |
return self | |
} |
c:\msys64\home\andy\dev\zig\build-release-llvm8>bin\zig.exe libc | |
# The directory that contains `stdlib.h`. | |
# On POSIX-like systems, include directories be found with: `cc -E -Wp,-v -xc /dev/null` | |
include_dir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\Include\10.0.17134.0\ucrt | |
# The system-specific include directory. May be the same as `include_dir`. | |
# On Windows it's the directory that includes `vcruntime.h`. | |
# On POSIX it's the directory that includes `sys/errno.h`. | |
sys_include_dir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.15.26726\lib\x64\\..\..\include | |
# The directory that contains `crt1.o`. |