Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What is the ratio of programs sizes CISC versus RISC Message-ID: <3430@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 14 Jun 91 13:08:58 GMT References: <3429@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1991Jun13.173625.24315@rice.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 14 In article <1991Jun13.173625.24315@rice.edu> preston@ariel.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes: | I don't much like this sort of comparison. | More interesting is path-length comparisons (number of instructions | actually executed). The original asked about code size, not speed, instructions executed, etc. I provided some data points on that. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode, but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"