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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances??
Keywords: Counting on Fingers
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Date: 19 Oct 90 12:27:08 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.172601.24943@terminator.cc.umich.edu> rsc@merit.edu (Richard Conto) writes:

>suppose a teenager can perform 1 integer
>operation in 1 second, and 1 floating point operation in 2 seconds.

Excuse me, but are these loosely coupled or tightly coupled teenagers?
Contrary to architectural intuition, one tends to get substantially
fewer Mflops from the latter.