About

The Zfa extension provides several new instructions to improve the performance of floating point code for RISC-V.   Of particular importance is the fli instruction for loading predefined constants into FP registers, but there are also fround instructions and additional comparisons/min/max instructions.  The fli instructions will typically replace a load from the constant pool, so they're faster, smaller and reduce the data footprint of FP code as well.

This work appears to be complete for LLVM.

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Status

Updates

15 Jun 2023 

• Upstream LLVM has integrated Zfa support

01 Jun 2023

• Project reported as priority for 2H23