Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC and emulated languages
Message-ID: <4015@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 28 Apr 89 01:17:33 GMT
References: <158@bms-at.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <158@bms-at.UUCP>, stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart Gathman) writes:
> There is one interesting feature of RISC architecture that I haven't seen
> mentioned much: the fact that an emulated/interpreted program will often
> run faster than a compiled one.

	[explanation of why omitted]

Wow, the 1802 looks RISCier all the time. The Forth inner-interpreter call
(docol) was faster than the in-line call (standard call/return technique).
And a good direct-token-threaded system, with byte tokens, was quite fast.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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