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From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
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Subject: Re: small instructions
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Date: 14 Jun 91 22:17:16 GMT
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In article <BC-BR@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
|> [...]
|> OK, so how come a cheetah is faster than a horse? It's superpipelined!
|> And a kangaroo has fewer processors but uses a bigger cache...

The cheetah is a RISC architecture.  It contains nothing that isn't
needed to run fast or to kill.

The horse is also RISCish, but is optimized for longer distance running.

Nature contains very few CISC architectures.

The kangaroo was designed by committee (like the platypus and several
other species from down under.

J. Giles