Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!ncrcan!scocan!seanf
From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 bits for times....
Message-ID: <1990Aug26.153056.26218@sco.COM>
Date: 26 Aug 90 19:30:56 GMT
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In article <41090@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>it's ALMOST USELESS to be trying to measure the speed of
>individual instructions on current machines
>	conflicts with functional units (such as write ports
>		into a register file)

Well, the Elxsi doesn't have pipelines or functional units (serial execution
only), so those don't come into play.

Doesn't mean John's points are invalid, I just wanted to point that out 8-).

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