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From: jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computers for users not programmers
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Date: 6 Feb 91 20:28:51 GMT
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hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

: There is the
:mistaken view that hardware should be designed to particular languages, and
:never mind that some programs may be many times slower because of the lack of
:particular instructions.  There is far more concern with "Braille optimization"
:and never mind what the sighted person can do.
:--

Sad to say this will remain the case as long as "important"
prospects make computer system buying decisions based on
benchmarks written in the <supply your own
favorite/least-favorite> computer language.

Having worked for a couple of hardware vendors I can attest
to the fact that benchmark performance considerations biased
the design of some or our systems.


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