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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: RISC v. CISC --more misconceptions
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Date: 1 Nov 88 17:39:11 GMT
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>Yea really ... and compilers use integer multiplies all the
>time when referencing into arrays...

Integer multiplies by *constants*, most of the time; you can often do
those better with shifts and adds than you can with the machine's
multiply instruction (and no, I'm not talking about the 68010, which
doesn't have a 32x32 multiply instruction).