Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: VLIW Architecture - References, oth
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.175251.19091@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <771301127@8909291517.AA00260@maxwell.ece.c> <130800001@peg>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 89 17:52:51 GMT

In article <130800001@peg> robert@peg.UUCP writes:
>Why should we welcome a continual increase in MIPS (VUPS or whatever)?
>We have enough trouble designing programs which work without error at the
>moment.  These will just get to the error state faster with more power.

Many of us have little reason to rejoice at higher power, at least until
the software catches up and lets us make intelligent use of all those
extra cycles.  (There is much more that the software could be doing for
us.)  However, those who do need more power need it *very badly*.  The
computational-aerodynamics people, to take one example, would be overjoyed
to be able to buy processors 1000 times the speed of existing ones.
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