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From: igp@torch.co.uk (Ian Phillipps)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Are RISC programs bigger than CISC?
Message-ID: <606@torch.co.uk>
Date: 12 Jan 90 09:28:02 GMT
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joe@petsd.UUCP (Joe Orost) writes:

>I have seen lots of benchmark figures that say that RISC machines
>can go real fast, but how about the code size?

In my experience, ratio of sparc size to 68K is about 1.25 to 1.3 (estimate)