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Saving instruction encoding space in CHERI RISC-V #120

Open andresag01 opened 1 year ago

andresag01 commented 1 year ago

In previous discussions, we concluded that there are some instructions in CHERI-RISC-V that could potentially be omitted without loosing performance if they are rare and/or could be easily emulated with other instructions. These instructions include:

It would be good to investigate this more carefully by looking at performance data.