Re: Vector vs Cache/Superscalar

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From: Rowan Hughes
Date: Wed, 08 May 1991 01:18

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In <11921@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

>The question is not what the compiler can handle; the older vector machines'
>compilers could handle this very well.  The question is what can the vector
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Herman,

I think you'll find that backwards recurrence has been around for a while.
Forward recurrence is still a problem ( or is it the other way around?).

-- 
Rowan Hughes                                James Cook University
Marine Modelling Unit                       Townsville, Australia.
Dept. Civil and Systems Engineering         csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au

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