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Support for machines with native fixed-point?

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This is a very interesting project! I wonder to what extent it aims to support CPU:s with native instructions for fixed-point operations? For instance, some machines support certain standard [Q...

Hi! I've been watching this project and I really like it (it's modular, it's VHDL, and it's a fairly complete CPU implementation with caches etc). Since it already has support...

Do certain tasks in a background daemon process

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Certain tasks are better done in the background in a daemon process, such as: * Compress and upload cache entries to a remote cache. * House-keeping (prune old cache entries...

Very interesting talk about file system optimizations on Windows: "NTFS really isn't that bad" - Robert Collins (LCA 2020) Around 20:15 Robert mentions a solution that avoids blocking on `CloseHandle()`...

This should hopefully be a simple extension to the C6x toolchain. See: https://www.ti.com/tool/download/PROCESSOR-SDK-RTOS-J721E

Something like: ## BUILDCACHE_DISABLE Bla, bla, bla... ... ## BUILDCACHE_TERMINATE_ON_MISS Bla, bla, bla...

S3 support: Switch the HTTP/S3 back end to microS3

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See: https://github.com/mbitsnbites/microS3

`*.inf` files are generated by the GHS compilers, but they are not stored in the cache and reproduced by BuildCache. Investigate further: * When are the files produced (e.g. what...

Some configuration options have little or no meaning now. They may have been a good idea at the time, but have since become more or less redundant. Also have a...

The following is required: * `get_capabilities()` must include `direct_mode` * Implement `get_input_files()` - which should find the source file(s) from the command line. * Implement `get_implicit_input_files()` - which should return...