Comment Comment by 33985868 MIPS did it too with the MIPS16 extension (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture#Application-...)Makes sense as a hardware designer to be able to pick a power- and space-efficient chip.Mashey also had thoughts about that: https://yarchive.net/comp/mips16.htmlLikewise for atomic operations: https://yarchive.net/comp/ll_sc.html parent 33985868 3 years ago
Makes sense as a hardware designer to be able to pick a power- and space-efficient chip.
Mashey also had thoughts about that: https://yarchive.net/comp/mips16.html
Likewise for atomic operations: https://yarchive.net/comp/ll_sc.html