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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Compilers and efficiency
Message-ID: <7117@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 20:59:45 GMT
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>If the languages do not allow the user to communicate  the use of those
>features of the CISC architecture which can make the object code considerably
>faster, the compiler cannot take advantage of them.

What about those features of the CISC architecture that don't make the
object code *any* faster?  Methinks that's what a lot of people are
complaining about here....