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From: lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Amdahl's Rule
Message-ID: <13179@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 20:16:23 GMT
References: <11299@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <11299@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> ddr@cs.ed.ac.uk (Doug Rogers) writes:
>The use of RISC machines demands more memory and the use of shared
>libraries reduces memory needs.

Surely the ratio of code-to-data shifts towards data as memory size
increases? I would have thought that this swamped the effects you
mention.


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Don		D.C.Lindsay 	Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute