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From: tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Handling mis-alignment (was Re: RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems?
Message-ID: <12780028@acf4.NYU.EDU>
Date: 13 Feb 90 19:48:00 GMT
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Organization: New York University
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A barrel shifter does not make you un-RISC. "RISC"ishness is if you
figure out how often you use it and how, and put it somewhere that
gives maximum utility for the investment given the alternative
investments.  Perhaps you put it somewhere that real estate isn't so
expensive such as off chip, nearer the I/O devices, unless there are
other applications that justify it being near chip.