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From: jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Compiler Costs
Message-ID: <928@dgis.dtic.dla.mil>
Date: 13 Jul 90 02:55:54 GMT
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[truths about ways and means of getting the most results
out of each processor second]

Should mention somewhere that for an interesting class of problems,
storing and sharing the results is more of a bottleneck than computing
them.  And that engines and methods that compute them faster only help
somewhat for committing them and making them available faster.

-- Jon
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