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From: roelof@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (R. Vuurboom)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Compiling - RISC vs. CISC
Message-ID: <152@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 11 Jul 89 13:28:50 GMT
References: <2190@oakhill.UUCP> <13980@lanl.gov>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <13980@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:

>that floating point is larger than other intrinsic types.  The best RISCs
>are those which only have _one_ data size.  (By the way, my model of a
			   ^^^^^

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