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From: keith@mips.COM (Keith Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What kinds of problems...
Message-ID: <16060@gumby.mips.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 89 22:13:32 GMT
References: <7137@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1989Mar18.170407.243@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Reply-To: keith@mips.COM (Keith Garrett)
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In article <1989Mar18.170407.243@mntgfx.mentor.com> mbutts@mntgfx.mentor.com (Mike Butts) writes:
                                                                  ^^^^^^
>From article <7137@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, by mbkennel@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Matthew B. Kennel):
>> Are there any really big jobs out there that are seriously bounded
>> by integer CPU performance?  (Excuse me, but I'm probably very naive)
>
	[discussion of simulation deleted]
>
>It's a challenging problem.  Give us 100 MIPS and we'll be happy for awhile, then beg for 1000.

if we give it to you will you bother to port your software?? 8-)

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