Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: RISC v. CISC (really, context-switching & windows)
Message-ID: <1988Oct28.181648.25837@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <156@gloom.UUCP> <310@lynx.zyx.SE> <332@pvab.UUCP> <15964@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <23367@amdcad.AMD.COM> <16003@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <6996@winchester.mips.COM> <313@auspex.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 88 18:16:48 GMT

In article <313@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>While I was at Sun, I don't remember there ever having been any effort
>to reduce the depth of the kernel call stack in order to speed things up
>on SPARC-based Suns...

Um, Guy, a lot of us Sun customers concluded quite a while ago that
performance (except on benchmarks) is not high on Sun's list of priorities.
"Just buy a faster machine, we'll be happy to sell you one."
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