Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: SPARC implementation or architecture Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 02:32:27 GMT References: <1991Apr17.183822.7681@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <41377@cup.portal.com> <1991Apr18.142341.23097@rice.edu> <2500@spim.mips.COM> <1991Apr23.140140.27847@webo.dg.com> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 20 In-reply-to: lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com's message of 23 Apr 91 14:01:40 GMT In article <1991Apr23.140140.27847@webo.dg.com> lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com (Donald Lewine) writes: .... 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. That was the old _DEC_ story. DEC's newest compiler release (press release info) claimed dramatic improvements with the new compilers ... which are a product of DEC not based on the MIPSco base. Marketing departments reserve the right to change stories as circumstances dictate ;> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043