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by gtroja 857 days ago
I love MIPS only because I had to implement it in VHDL. And program it in assembly. And byte code. And had to implement a compiler for it. At the time I didn't like it that much, but looking back I would do it again
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sounds like you can still see the branch delay slots everytime you close your eyes
Oh yeah, we called those "bubbles" heheh. Oh the branch prediction, blew my mind at the time
And all seven stages of the pipeline.
I still use the 7 stages idea to program almost anything