andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) (04/10/91)
[] "I feel the 88k has a slight edge by not having the internals of the pipeline visible to the compiler." A decent 88k compiler will still keep its eye on pipeline internals or the performance of its generated code will be poor. The obvious example is a load;store with no intervening instructions, which wastes at best two cycles and at worst a dozen or more. The 88k scoreboard hold system just allowed 88k developers to get started with stupid compilers while awaiting good compilers. And boy, have I seen some stupid compilers ... -=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]