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From: spot@WOOZLE.GRAPHICS.CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Compilers taking advantage of architectural enhancements
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Date: 31 Oct 90 20:39:32 GMT
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cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes
|> In many cases, the operation is very simple, not complex.  Do not
assume that
|> the current operations on the computers are even an attempt at the logically
|> basic ones.  This was the case in the early computers, when those designing
|> them had a good understanding of mathematics.  It is not the case now.

what a completely bigoted and infantile statement.  your true colors are
showing.
so tell us, what are the "logically basic operations"?  probably those
you wish you had the last time you wrote some code, right?

|> 
|> [ a few things herman wishes were in hardware ]
|> 
|> In some cases, the difference would not be between 32 and 75 cycles, but
|> between 2 and 75.

name it.  and then show how it can be implemented on a modern processor.
and then show that those transistors couldn't have been better spent on
something else.  keep in mind the application mix that uProcs are
actually used for.



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