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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:28:31 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- boberg@team17.com (Stefan Boberg) writes:
-
- > I find the removal of the muls.l instruction rather strange anyway.
- >It's quite useful really.
-
- It is useful for handwritten assembler, sometimes. But it is probably
- a big problem for super-scalar execution as the chips do not have a
- 64bit arithmetic unit. And you must not forget that the 060 calculates
- a 32x32->64 multiplication (using several instructions) still faster
- than the 040. A smart emulator could even replace the 64bit instructions
- with a JSR on the fly and still be faster on subsequent loops.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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