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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.

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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.

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

The Tenstorrent folks are working on that.

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The unwritten rule of HN:

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

How would you define "fast"?

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.

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."

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

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.

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

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