[netr0ute]

The only thing I don't like about this is the focus on x86 assembly, which is a sinking ship because RISC-V is coming to eat its lunch, FAST.

[KeplerBoy]

I could understand if you wrote arm, because that's an architecture with actual marketshare. arguably more marketshare than x86-64 at this point, but you had to choose risc-v for the lols.

[wolf550e]

Where are the high performance RISC-V implementations? Those that compete with AMD Zen-5 and Apple M4? Or at least AWS Graviton 4?

[zozbot234]

The Tenstorrent folks are working on that.

[high_na_euv]

HackerNews does not reflect real world well

[ksec]

The unwritten rule of HN:

You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet.

[do_not_redeem]

How would you define "fast"?

[hagbard_c]

In relative terms, compared with similarly priced and powered devices on the market. RISC-V does lag behind the others - ARM, x86/64 - here, at least for now.

[snvzz]

Not eating. Only drinking water or zero calory drinks such as black coffee.

Only while fasting can a person think clearly. When thinking clearly, RISC-V is inevitably chosen as the ISA.

Fasting will also eventually make you hungry. Thus "RISC-V is coming to eat its lunch, FAST."

[astrange]

Doesn't RISC-V use vector stream processing instead of SIMD? That's a poor fit for ffmpeg.

[astrange]

I should say, I think it would be. I haven't actually tried it and know ARM has added it too, so it'd be interesting to see for sure.

[201984]

Wake me up when a RISC-V processor is on par with an N50.