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From: david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Cycle stretching
Message-ID: <844@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 20:44:58 GMT
Organization: Daisy Systems, Mt. View, CA
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Here is a dumb question.  Say I have a CPU where 99 percent of the instructions
take, say, one clock.  The remaining instructions need just a little longer--
one clock plus a few nanoseconds.  Why not stretch the clock a bit when exec-
uting those instructions, instead of wasting most of a second clock period?

					-- David Schachter

Opinions herein are an artifact of pulse dialing, not a carbon-based life form.