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From: joel@pandora.pa.dec.com (Joel McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Complex Instructions
Keywords: RISC, CISC, HPS
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Date: 14 Apr 89 04:41:38 GMT
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I too can vouch for the fact that sequences of simple VAX instructions are often faster than a single ``smart'' instruction.  The WRL Modula-2 compiler generates decent, but not great, code.  Nonetheless, it is quite competitive against most of the