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by VonTum 236 days ago
For the uninitiated in AArch64, are there specific parts of it you're referring to here? Mostly what I find is that it lets you stitch common instruction combinations together, like shift + add and fancier adressing. Since the whole point of RISC-V was a RISC instruction set, these things are superfluous.
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RISC-V has shift+add instructions as part of the Zba extension. Zba is part of B, so it's included in many recent RISC-V profiles.