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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker vs. the $999 7200/75 w/4xCD!
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 09:27:01 +0200
- Organization: dis-
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- fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) writes:
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- >A CISC needs less memory acess ? well, less code memory-acess.
- >however, that's far less than data-memory acess (for most software).
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- Do your computer science courses something good and listen to them :)
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- >so quite little instruction cache gives a lot help.
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- That's why fast RISC chips have little cache sizes of 2-4MByte and are
- still slowed down I guess.
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- >But CISC doesn't need less data-memory acess, which is the one that cares.
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- You care for this in a tiny texture mapping loop :)
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- >well, what would CISCier mean ? that some operations only work on
- >Akku and only CX can be used as counter ? ;)
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- That has nothing to do with CISC :)
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- No, you would see instructions that do complex things.
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- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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