Article View: comp.arch
Article #20915Re: RISC and emulated languages
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1989 01:17
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1989 01:17
15 lines
1025 bytes
1025 bytes
In article <158@bms-at.UUCP>, stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart Gathman) writes: > There is one interesting feature of RISC architecture that I haven't seen > mentioned much: the fact that an emulated/interpreted program will often > run faster than a compiled one. [explanation of why omitted] Wow, the 1802 looks RISCier all the time. The Forth inner-interpreter call (docol) was faster than the in-line call (standard call/return technique). And a good direct-token-threaded system, with byte tokens, was quite fast. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Personal: ...!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<4015@ficc.uu.net>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peterReferences:
<158@bms-at.UUCP>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: RISC and emulated languages Message-ID: <4015@ficc.uu.net> Date: 28 Apr 89 01:17:33 GMT References: <158@bms-at.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support Lines: 15