SiFive Introduces 7 Series RISC-V Cores with E7, S7 and the U7 Series
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#2I am pretty excited about RISC-V. Hoping to see a v8 JavaScript and Node.js port in the future.
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#3when?
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#4When can I buy an affordable, complete RISC-V computer? I've been long planning to cook my own with FPGA but it seems like soon we'll start getting affordable RISC-V CPUs with other utility support?
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#5When can I buy an affordable, complete RISC-V computer? I've been long planning to cook my own with FPGA but it seems like soon we'll start getting affordable RISC-V CPUs with other utility support?
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#6I am pretty excited about RISC-V. Hoping to see a v8 JavaScript and Node.js port in the future.
That shouldn't be super hard. I don't think there is much assembly in either. And C can be compiled to RISC-V already.
My only experience porting node was to a specialized ARM system a while ago, so ARM support may have been already built in or things may have changed.
edit: as people have commented, there indeed is a fair amount of arch specific stuff for reference the mips directory https://github.com/v8/v8/tree/master/src/mips64
Re: SiFive Introduces 7 Series RISC-V Cores with E7, S7 and the U7 Series
#7I am pretty excited about RISC-V. Hoping to see a v8 JavaScript and Node.js port in the future.
That shouldn't be super hard. I don't think there is much assembly in either. And C can be compiled to RISC-V already. My only experience porting node was to a specialized ARM system a while ago, so ARM support may have been already built in or things may have changed. edit: as people have commented, there indeed is a fair amount of arch specific stuff for reference the mips directory https://github.com/v8/v8/tree/ma…
V8 has a JIT, which is always going to require work to port to a new architecture. But the new-ish TurboFan backend is supposed to have the architecture-dependent parts relatively well factored out[1], so it's not as hard as it might be.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_eLlVzcj94_G4r9j9d_L...
Re: SiFive Introduces 7 Series RISC-V Cores with E7, S7 and the U7 Series
#8I am pretty excited about RISC-V. Hoping to see a v8 JavaScript and Node.js port in the future.
That shouldn't be super hard. I don't think there is much assembly in either. And C can be compiled to RISC-V already. My only experience porting node was to a specialized ARM system a while ago, so ARM support may have been already built in or things may have changed. edit: as people have commented, there indeed is a fair amount of arch specific stuff for reference the mips directory https://github.com/v8/v8/tree/ma…
v8 is a JIT compiler. It emits instructions for specific architectures. So even if it's not written in assembly, it has some very architecture specific parts in it.
Re: SiFive Introduces 7 Series RISC-V Cores with E7, S7 and the U7 Series
#9When can I buy an affordable, complete RISC-V computer? I've been long planning to cook my own with FPGA but it seems like soon we'll start getting affordable RISC-V CPUs with other utility support?
Affordable RISC-V systems will only happen if they reach a comparable level of mass production as proprietary systems. What you will more likely see for now is a gradual increase in the number of components on GPUs, HDDs etc which use RISC-V instead of ARM or something else. The ISA is only a part of the cost equation.
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#10I've only had a passing interest in learning assembly. It's always been in the "maybe one day" category.
But after learning about how small the RISC-V instruction set is (less than 50 apparently, but I can't find a citation for that anywhere), I'm far more motivated to get into it.