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From: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: complexity
Keywords: code scheduling compilers
Message-ID: <407@unicads.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 16:36:45 GMT
References: <38853@bbn.COM> <423@bnr-fos.UUCP> <4844@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
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In article <4844@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>schow@bnr-public.uucp (Stanley Chow) says:
>>It would be interesting to speculate on total system complexity, is it
>>higher for CISC or for RISC (with its attendent memory and compiler
>>requirements).
>
>Moving complexity from one place to
>another may be a big win, or a big lose,

Yes, moving it outside of loops or moving it from runtime 
to compiletime would seem generally advangageous.