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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.next
Subject: Re: RISC v. CISC --more misconceptions
Message-ID: <40@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 18:58:48 GMT
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References: <156@gloom.UUCP> <18931@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <18931@apple.Apple.COM> baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) writes:
| You may find, howver, that it won't make any difference in your
| performance because no one needs an integer multiplier very
| often. Like a lot of things that RISC designers have left out.

I humbly disagree.  Just because *you* never use an integer multiply
does not imply that noone else ever does.

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