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In article <1992Nov20.220615.7494@raid.dell.com>, samf@yosemite.dell.com (Sam Fuller) writes...
>After reviewing the Alpha performance claims, I had the feeling that the integer unit
>did not really run at 133Mhz.  It looked to me that the floating point pipeline was
>superpipelined at 133Mhz, but that the integer side ran at a more reasonable 66Mhz.  The
>pipes can operate independently and I imagine be dispatched in parallel, hence the 
>superscalar appelation. In my opinion, either DEC did a terrible job of code scheduling 
>for their integer pipeline or its not really running at 133Mhz or 200Mhz as the case may
>be.
> 
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>Anyone who knows care to comment on this analysis?
> 
This is not true. The cpu is capable of issuing 2 instructions every cycle.
Floating point is fully pipelined as is the integer unit. Integer shifts
take 2 cycles; integer add/sub and logical ops take one cycle.

Dileep