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From: patc@tekcrl.UUCP (Pat Caudill)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Where are delayed branches handled?
Message-ID: <931@tekcrl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 09:54:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 15 09:54:37 1986
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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	Although I usually want an assembler to assemble
what I coded, there is precidence for assemblers doing
optimization. Besides long short jump, opcode selection
for imed, short, long offset or macros. I beleive the SOAP
(Symbolic Optimizing Assembly Program) did instruction
scheduling for a machine which this was very important
and also very difficult. Code for the machine was mainly
in assembly language. The machine is now somewhat dated
however.

			Pat Caudill
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