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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: User visible pipelines vs. user visible memory coherency.
- Message-ID: <id.GGUV.TQJ@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Dec12.102403.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <1992Dec14.030757.14209@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:54:00 GMT
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- [DEC dumping branch delay slots]
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- In article <1992Dec14.030757.14209@adobe.com> zstern@adobe.com (Zalman Stern) writes:
- > Without any real compelling arguments that I've heard.
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- I think the theory is that if they're going to have a bunch of instruction
- prefetching anyway, it's not a win, and they expect more rather than less
- instruction reordering in silicon in the future.
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