Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!inmos!des@frogland.inmos.co.uk From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Compilers taking advantage of architectural enhancements Message-ID: <11922@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> Date: 16 Oct 90 11:49:22 GMT References: <1990Oct9> <3300194@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <336@fjcp60.GOV> Sender: news@inmos.co.uk Reply-To: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK. Lines: 17 In article <336@fjcp60.GOV> golds@fjcnet.GOV (Rich Goldschmidt) writes: >Chip designers might even take compilers into >consideration in their designs :-). they already do! 4 years ago when the IMS T800 was being designed out of the 8 people involved in the fpu design 1 was writting standard function libraries and another was writing the compiler. This enabled the instructions to be tuned to take account of the code sequences that the compiler produced/needed. high performance now depends on both hardware and software technology so you shouldn't design one without considering the other! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- david shepherd: des@inmos.co.uk or des@inmos.com tel: 0454-616616 x 529 inmos ltd, 1000 aztec west, almondsbury, bristol, bs12 4sq phevbfvgl xvyyrq gur png