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- From: kjgudim (Kjell Gudim)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 80 MIPS with Blizzard1260?
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 20:58:06 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
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- rad wrote this in comp.sys.amiga.hardware:
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- >>achived by only executing NOP's.
- >I'm not saying that the 80MIPS is or isn't realistic, but you cannot get
- >80MIPS executing NOPS. The execution of a NOP instruction causes the
- >processor to synchronize various parts of the pipeline and is one of the
- >slowest instructions in the CPU. It would be wonderful if you could get NOPS
- >at 80MIPS since most other instructions would be ungodly fast.
-
- I've heard about that pipeline stuff. But the 80 MIPS /was/ achieved using
- only one repetitive command.
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