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- From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- Subject: Re: CISC and RISC
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.145140.22935@city.cs>
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- Organization: City University, London
- References: <Bz8FD1.Dxt@ns1.nodak.edu> <6587@pdxgate.UUCP> <AHANSFOR.92Dec18071830@bigwpi.wpi.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:51:40 GMT
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- ahansfor@bigwpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford) writes:
- >>>>>> On 18 Dec 92 00:56:48 GMT, idr@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick) said:
- >
- >idr> It's to the
- >idr> point now on RISC machines that a native compiler can usually
- >idr> BEAT and assembly language progammer (snif)
- >
- >No doubt. Compiler technology has made large advances in dealing with
- >RISC. I am not surprised that a compiler with many man hours of
- >development can outperform an assembly programmer on any section of
- >code unless the programmer is VERY familiar with pipeline scheduling
- >algorithms.
-
- This is very interesting. I have oftened wondered whether computers
- will become better at programming computers than humans. This appears
- to be happening at the assembler vs compiler level.
-
- News headlines: Computer (assembly) programmers made redundant
- by computer programs!
-
- When will this phenomenon engulf the C programmers and eventually
- the 4GL programmers?
-
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