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From: scu@otter.hpl.hp.com (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC reaching its limits?!?
Message-ID: <780025@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 15:30:48 GMT
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> > In article <3416@uc.msc.umn.edu> dwm@msc.edu (Don Mears) writes:
> > 
> > The most
> > surprising feature to me was the hardware string support; IBM justified this
> > by pointing out profiling data showing that a large fraction of system time
> > is spent in string compares**.
> > 

Also known as the DHRY instruction; named after a very popular but
ultimately meaningless benchmark :-) :-).
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Shankar Unni                                   E-Mail: 
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