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Article #20939Re: 80486 vs. 68040 code size
From: Norman Matloff
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1989 00:34
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1989 00:34
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In article <13699@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: > Someone posted an opinion that images on the 68040 will be smaller >than the 80386. I didn't think this sounded right, so I made a few >measurements. Everything else being equal, a machine with a more orthogonal structure -- many op codes can be used with addressing modes and many registers -- should produce larger programs. Thus the 68000 family machines, being more orthogonal than those in the 8086 family, should produce larger code, as shown by your data. Norm
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!tinman.Berkeley.EDU!matloff From: matloff@tinman.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Matloff) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 80486 vs. 68040 code size Message-ID: <23757@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 29 Apr 89 00:34:32 GMT References: <13699@steinmetz.ge.com> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: matloff@heather.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff) Organization: EECS, UC Davis Lines: 13