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Article #21021Re: 80486 vs. 68040 code size
From: 24 more school days
Date: Wed, 03 May 1989 19:18
Date: Wed, 03 May 1989 19:18
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In 9681 pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) sez: >Both compilers used are highly optimizing. > >The 68020 has more registers than the 386, but this ought to count for >little, as according to literature the knee of the curve for C is before or >at 4 registers (important note: for typical Unix utilities, e.g. excluding >floating point) because of the average simplicity of C expressions. Hahahahah ha ha ha ha ha. Oh. excuse me. (chuckle) I can't help myself. Highly optimizing compilers have long been able to make very good use of more than four registers. >Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk >Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg >Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk -- @---@ ----------------------------------------------------------------- @---@ \. ./ | Chris (The Lab Rat) Quenelle cquenel@polyslo.calpoly.edu | \. ./ \ / | You can keep my things, they've come to take me home -- PG | \ / ==o== ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==o==
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!polyslo!cquenel From: cquenel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (24 more school days) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 80486 vs. 68040 code size Message-ID: <10979@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 3 May 89 19:18:48 GMT References: <902@aber-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: cquenel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (24 more school days) Distribution: eunet,world Organization: Blue Blaze Irregulars Lines: 26