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Article #11382Re: DEC Alpha AXP System INTEGER Performance
From: John Hascall
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:11
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:11
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yankus@IMD.Sterling.COM (Mike Yankus) writes: }Blair.Phillips@cao.mts.dec.com writes: }>Most real programs will use the runtime libraries for string manipulation, and }>anyone serious about speed won't access single bytes very often, ... }You are forgetting about a large volume of programs which mainly do }nothing but character manipulation. These include editors, compilers, }mail handling, and the very programs which do the posting and reading }of News. I would consider a machine which does not have efficient }character handling capability a step backwards of about 30 years. Don't forget that the days of byte-sized `characters' are numbered... John -- John Hascall ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.'' Systems Software Engineer Project Vincent Iowa State University Computation Center + Ames, IA 50011 + 515/294-9551
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pmafire!news.dell.com!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!john From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) Subject: Re: DEC Alpha AXP System INTEGER Performance Message-ID: <By2qBG.Jq2@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA References: <1710@niktow.canisius.edu> <1992Nov16.231949.1214@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <1992Nov18.180357.3105@sparky.imd.sterling.com> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:11:39 GMT Lines: 19