> There has been ARM fans claiming that conditional instructions make ARM superior for simple chips.
For those following this only from the sidelines, it would help strengthen the article if the article has links to such claims. I couldn’t easily find them, and would be curious as to their age, given that, reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predication_(computer_architec..., ARM has made substantial changes to conditional execution a few times since 1994 (over 25 years ago); Thumb (1994) dropped them, Thumb-2 (2003) replaced them by, if I understand it correctly, an instruction “skip the next 4 instructions depending on flags”, and ARMv8 replaced them by conditional select.
(In general, providing links to articles claiming each proclaimed myth to be true would strengthen this article. I think I’ve only ever read about #1, and not with as strong a wording as “bloats”)
If there was some good articles to point to I would. However I don't want to single out people ranting against RISC-V. This is more about opinions which keep popping out here in Hacker news, twitter, Quora and other places. I don't want this discussion to be turned personal.
It should be possible to discuss these opinions without singling out anyone.
I am however talking about claims put forth after ARMv8. The argument here has basically been this: Both ARM and RISC-V aims to cover both the low end and high end. Some ARM fans think that by not including conditional instructions RISC-V really only works for high-end CPUs. The idea here is that AArch32 would be better than RV32 for lower-end chips.
For those following this only from the sidelines, it would help strengthen the article if the article has links to such claims. I couldn’t easily find them, and would be curious as to their age, given that, reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predication_(computer_architec..., ARM has made substantial changes to conditional execution a few times since 1994 (over 25 years ago); Thumb (1994) dropped them, Thumb-2 (2003) replaced them by, if I understand it correctly, an instruction “skip the next 4 instructions depending on flags”, and ARMv8 replaced them by conditional select.
(In general, providing links to articles claiming each proclaimed myth to be true would strengthen this article. I think I’ve only ever read about #1, and not with as strong a wording as “bloats”)