Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Optimizers and RISC (Re: Why unix doesn't catch on)
Message-ID: <3181@looking.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 17:13:14 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Did RISC machines cause a push in optimizing compilers?  I always thought
the big advantage of the RISC was that it made the low level optimizations
so much simpler -- there's only one way to code the thing, so no need to
worry about the best use of fancy instructions and addressing modes.

High level optimizations are another matter, but they apply as well to CISC
as to RISC.
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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473