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Article #11286Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
From: John English
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:44
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:44
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bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes: > Herman is bemoaning the fact that quite often a computer HAS hardware > to execute some particular instruction that he likes, but that HLL's > do not allow him access to it. One of my favourite quotes (from the VAX/VMS Run Time Library manual): "The VAX instruction set was designed for efficient use by high level languages and therefore contains many functions which are directly useful in your programs. However, many of these functions cannot be used directly by high level languages..." Says it all, really. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John English | "Yes, understanding today's complex world of Dept. of Computing | the future IS a little like having bees live University of Brighton | in your head... but, there they are..." Janet: je @ unix.brighton.ac.uk | "People who live in windowed environments Fax: 0273 642405 | shouldn't cast pointers" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!glasgow!unix.brighton.ac.uk!je From: je@unix.brighton.ac.uk (John English) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms) Message-ID: <1992Nov19.114449.21698@unix.brighton.ac.uk> Date: 19 Nov 92 11:44:49 GMT References: <1992Nov17.112551.10920@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> Organization: University of Brighton, UK Lines: 20