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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 80-20
Message-ID: <1989Nov12.232018.5677@world.std.com>
Date: 12 Nov 89 23:20:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: bzs@world.std.com's message of Sun, 12 Nov 89 18:31:32 GM


>If you want a good feel for the 80% look at the code generated by
>VAX/VMS Fortran. It uses far less than 80% of the instructions as far
>as I can tell (perhaps more in rare cases, hmmm, what %age of the
>instructions for what %age of generated code...)

Gak, did I write that?

Replace "a good feel for the 80%" with "a good feel for what is
probably in the 80%". I have no specific information, just assuming
that their Fortran code generator knows the fastest parts of the
instruction set currently so I'd guess that's what people are looking
for.

I shouldn't have started that at all, apologies.
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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