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From: lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com (Donald Lewine)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SPARC implementation or architecture
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.140140.27847@webo.dg.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 14:01:40 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.183822.7681@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <41377@cup.portal.com> <1991Apr18.142341.23097@rice.edu> <2500@spim.mips.COM>
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In article <2500@spim.mips.COM>, mash@mips.com (John Mashey) writes:
|> 
	[5 pages of comparison of Sun compilers and MIPS compilers
     deleted.]

|> However, the major conclusion: that the two are indistinguishable,
|> is wrong, if you think 10% is distinguishable... 
|> -- 
|> -john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
The last sentence is the point!  MIPS marketing (at least as retold
by DEC) is that the MIPS compiler technology provides a *HUGE* 
advantage over other RISC architectures.  If the difference is
+/- 10%, that is a whole different story.

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