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by snvzz 1104 days ago
RISC-V would not add instructions w/o a strong justification, as simplicity has value in itself, and RISC-V is very RISC in recognizing that.

If it's not that frequent and it can be done with 2 instructions, it'd be quite hard to make the argument for a dedicated instruction.

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Except that as soon as you have two instructions instead of one, people starts talking about cache pressure and turns off the safety. Optional security == no security.
By that same logic, you might as well run everything in M mode.