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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Weighty instructions (was Re: Atari Transputers ? & A British ST/Amiga Rival ?)
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Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 13:18:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 13:18:53 1987
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what is needed is a way of weighting the instructions on various
processors against some absolute scale.  then you could do something
like:

	sum-for-i-from-0-to-n (wieght-of-instruction-i * #-of-times-executed)
	---------------------------------------------------------------------
	number-of-seconds

and have a really useful measure.

(Wish this terminal would do capital-sigma's)


My vague memory of calculus reminds me of "moment arms"


Of course the "weight-of-instruction-i" term is non-trivial.
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<---- David Herron,  Local E-Mail Hack,  david@ms.uky.edu, david@ms.uky.csnet
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<---- I thought that time was this neat invention that kept everything
<---- from happening at once.  Why doesn't this work in practice?