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- From: mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin)
- Subject: Re: Superscalar vs. multiple CPUs ?
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- Organization: College of Marine Studies, U. Del.
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:32:23 GMT
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- In article <Bzpzwq.18q@news.udel.edu> mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes:
- >Although I don't think it was ever done, the world's fastest text
- >editor could probably have been written for the ETA-10, which had a
- >bewildering variety of instructions for copying and searching chunks of
- >its bit-addressable memory at vector speeds. The Cray machines could
- >be competitive, but the lack of byte addressability makes working with
- >text awkward and relatively slow.
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- I have been corrected on this last point by some friendly Cray-persons.
- After hearing their explanations of how many of the C library string
- handling routines have been vectorized, I still contend that it is
- awkward, but now see that it need not be slow....
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- John D. McCalpin mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu
- Assistant Professor mccalpin@brahms.udel.edu
- College of Marine Studies, U. Del. John.McCalpin@mvs.udel.edu
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