Re: Need references on architecural comparison

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From: Robert Hyatt
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:59

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In article <1993Jan26.234628.23217@zip.eecs.umich.edu> ashish@blueridge.eecs.umich.edu (Ashish Mehra) writes:
>
>I would appreciate if the knowledgable amongst you
>can give me some pointers to articles on architectural
>comparisons focusing on context switching overhead and
>interrupt response time. Relevant processor architectures
>are the R2000/3000, SPARC, 68030/40 and 486. Also,
>is there any study done that compared the _relative_
>performance gains of a synchronization instruction
>like test-and-set over pure software mechanisms?
>

What is a "pure software mechanism"???  Assuming you are implementing
a lock for multiprocessors, I haven't seen a pure software approach that
will work.....

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!Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences   !
!hyatt@cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham !

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