honey@down.FUN (code 101) (09/01/84)
Quoting:
The results were uncommon.
Two to four times the performance of
popular UNIX hosts on standard benchmarks
like Ackermann's Function.
Oh that is rich, Ackermann's function indeed. Sometime last year, I
threw together a lex routine that replaced VAX calls/ret subroutine
linkage by a jsb/rsb one. Surprise, surprise, Ackermann ran twice as
fast.
Quoting:
And while hundreds of complex instructions
on most computers are never used by high-
level languages, every super-optimized RISC
instruction is. All 31.
Gee, I count 86. But then maybe my Pyramid Processor Architecture
Manual (Preliminary) is out of date.
Peter
P.s.: Some things I don't intend here:
I don't intend to revive the "what is a RISC?" discussion. We
all know that a RISC is anything that says PDP-8 on the front
panel.
I don't intend to deprecate Pyramid (the processor) -- we are
ordering two of them.
I don't intend to unduly praise the VAX (which is clearly the
comparison model) even though I'm a 780 guy from 'way back.
I don't intend to ever split another infinitive.bcase@uiucdcs.UUCP (09/04/84)
#R:down:-29400:uiucdcs:27800023:000:135 uiucdcs!bcase Sep 3 17:32:00 1984 [What's this about a line eater bug?] Look, we all know that Pyramid marketing is complete bullsh*t; why should Pyramid be different?