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Article #10828Re: Superscalar vs. multiple CPUs ?
From: william E Davidsen
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:49
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:49
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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.
Would you believe a Cray2 runs troff slower than a Sun? I have some
old results which certainly seem to show this, and having used text
editors on the Cray I'm willing to believe it.
--
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!crdgw1!rdsunx.crd.ge.com!ariel!davidsen From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Superscalar vs. multiple CPUs ? Message-ID: <1992Dec23.194941.17632@crd.ge.com> Date: 23 Dec 92 19:49:41 GMT References: <PCG.92Dec11162630@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> <1992Dec21.134531.3253@athena.mit.edu> <PCG.92Dec23144916@decb.aber.ac.uk> <Bzpzwq.18q@news.udel.edu> Sender: usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP) Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: ariel.crd.ge.com