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  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!pdxgate!rigel!idr
  3. From: idr@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  5. Subject: Re: CISC and RISC
  6. Message-ID: <6587@pdxgate.UUCP>
  7. Date: 18 Dec 92 00:56:48 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: pdxgate.6587
  9. References: <70436@cup.portal.com> <amipb.04wr@amipb.gna.org> <37844@cbmvax.commodore.com> <Bz8FD1.Dxt@ns1.nodak.edu>
  10. Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP
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  14. In article <Bz8FD1.Dxt@ns1.nodak.edu> dewald@plains.NoDak.edu (Eric Dewald) writes:
  15. >What are the advantages of CISC and RISC?
  16.  
  17. Well, since RISC is a more basic instruction set, it is MUCH easier for a
  18. compiler to generate good code for it.  It's to the point now on RISC machines
  19. that a native compiler can usually BEAT and assembly language progammer (snif)
  20. It also makes it so that the instructions themselves are smaller and can be
  21. fetched and decoded quicker.
  22.  
  23.                                   - Ian Romanick
  24.                                     Dancing Fool of Epsilon
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