Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: GOTO considered essential??
Message-ID: <1989Oct29.004145.12787@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Oct27.050923.5294@ico.isc.com> <863@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 89 00:41:45 GMT

In article <863@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> philf@xymox.metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez) writes:
>... In the end, IBM
>admitted that in real-world situations, they saw more like 1.0-1.2
>instructions/cycle. 5i/c is just a theoretical maximum...

As John Mashey has observed in regard to things like MIPS ratings, such
numbers should always be considered "guaranteed not to exceed" ratings.
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