Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Optimal Computer Architectures Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 90 06:28:55 GMT References: <212412@<1990Nov8> <3300209@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <8662@scolex.sco.COM> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 17 In-reply-to: seanf@sco.COM's message of 10 Nov 90 23:47:12 GMT In article <8662@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes: .... >SPARC seems to suck the big wazoo >on deep recursion, presumably because of its register-windowing >design. More to the point, *any* processor with register windows is not going to do too well on deeply recursive code. .... Lest we forget, the SPARC ISA provides register windows, but their use is up to sw conventions (viz. CALL does not result in a window spin). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM | khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043