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What, you don't have a special command to Compare Unsigned values in register C vs result register K? or Floating-point Addition with Parenthesis, so store the value for use on the next cycle?
I still don't know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle
Its been in RISC V for decades.
I wouldn't really characterize fourteen years as "decades."
IT years are similar to dog years, an IT year is multiple normal human years, so 14 IT years is certainly IT decades.
algernon nods sagely
THAT'S how I'm supposed to get ten years of experience in a five year old technology
Just lie. What are they going to do? They don't know enought to realize they made an impossible request, they won't be able to tell the difference between 10 and 5 years experience.
Just don't work there, seems like a company run by idiots
STEP 1: find company run by idiots
STEP 2: get them to give me a remote job
STEP 3: barely work at all
STEP 4: get second remote job and collect 2 paychecks
"Algernon"? The monkey in your PFP? The nerdy kid in Canis Canem Edit a.k.a. Bully?
I'm pretty sure fused add multiply with store is part of the AVX instruction set.