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- From: haw30@macaw.ccc.amdahl.com (Henry A Worth)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: MVC and MVCL (was Re: RISC Mainframe)
- Message-ID: <e7w0026N1bbP01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 18:53:11 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.172258.22178@raid.dell.com> <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> <1992Jul24.190506.6168@PA.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Jul24.190506.6168@PA.dec.com> ed@pa.dec.com writes:
- > > And since most of the code is written in assembly language to begin
- > > with, compiler optimizations are moot.
- >
- > I don't think this necessarily follows. For example, one of the compiled
- > languages for Alpha is Macro-32, i.e., VAX Assembly. It's unusual to think
- > of what started out as an assembly language to be run through a compiler,
- > but there's nothing magic about it.
- >
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- Except that a lot of old assembly code dates from an age when being
- self-modifing was a virtue...
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- Henry Worth
- No, I don't speak for Amdahl... I'm not even sure I speak for myself.
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