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- From: samf@yosemite.dell.com (Sam Fuller)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: MVC and MVCL (was Re: RISC Mainframe)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.172258.22178@raid.dell.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:22:58 GMT
- References: <1992Jul14.181115.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <e83w02h719R301@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <BrM7Mw.DIp@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Jul19.212901.8857@bcars64a.bnr.ca> <BrrBvA.E0w@zoo.toronto.edu>
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- In article <BrrBvA.E0w@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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- |>
- |> The fact is, rewriting the code -- in some way, not necessarily involving
- |> human effort or maintaining multiple versions -- *makes it run faster*.
- |> If it's worth the trouble, you find a way to do it. If it's worthwhile
- |> for bcopy, it's probably worthwhile for (some) other things for at least
- |> some customers... if the machine will let you.
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- In the mainframe world it's easier to build faster machines than to "rewrite the code."
- And since most of the code is written in assembly language to begin with, compiler
- optimizations are moot.
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