Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: In defense of the VAX
Message-ID: <1989Feb27.175416.18645@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11037@tekecs.TEK.COM> <76700073@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <324@taniwha.UUCP> <668@m3.mfci.UUCP> <501@megatek.UUCP> <752@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 17:54:16 GMT

In article <752@microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb) writes:
>... skip instructions are one thing I wish the 29000 had.

It does, actually.  There's no reason why a (future) implementation couldn't
pay special attention to branches that go only one or two instructions ahead.
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