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by progman 3070 days ago
> Why give up on performance?

We don't need to give up on performance, even with low-performance RISC-V chips. What we need is a new architecture which takes advantage of low-speed multicore processors. If it is possible to produce thousand-core RISC-V chips [1] then any core could be assigned a single thread - which implies that there is no need for a complex multitasking OS.

[1] Towards Thousand-Core RISC-V Shared Memory Systems (PDF)

https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Wed1000-Thousan...