[akshitgaur2005]

why?

[stinkbeetle]

Well Linux distros are consolidating around RVA23 target, for one thing (I'm not OP).

[knorker]

The difference in performance in the kind of compute workloads I'm interested in are so improved by SIMD/Vector that there isn't even any point evaluating non-RVV hardware.

[6SixTy]

RISC-V Vector is roughly equivalent to MMX, SSE, and AVX. A lot of tasks without those instructions are flat out slower without.

[akshitgaur2005]

Ahh, I read that as "Oh no, vector extension" my bad