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Article #21962Re: Are RISC programs bigger than CISC?
From: Tim Olson
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 15:16
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 15:16
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In article <1734@petsd.UUCP> joe@petsd.UUCP (Joseph M. Orost) writes: | I have seen lots of benchmark figures that say that RISC machines | can go real fast, but how about the code size? Is the old notion | that the code on a RISC will be about twice the size of that on a | CISC true? Does anyone have information on this subject, especially | for large programs? This has been discussed here, before, but this is typically what we see: 68020 .text Am29000 .text Program (Sun 3/260) MetaWare C ratio ----------------------------------------------------- compress 6600 8792 1.33 dhrystone 1.1 1608 1892 1.17 dhrystone 2.0 2984 3056 1.02 diff 10448 14492 1.39 grep 2640 4288 1.62 nroff 35328 59708 1.69 sipasm 52032 71528 1.37 stanford 9064 9752 1.08 ------------------------------------------------------------ 120704 173508 1.44 -- Tim Olson Advanced Micro Devices (tim@amd.com)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!rex!ames!amdcad!nucleus!tim From: tim@nucleus.amd.com (Tim Olson) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Are RISC programs bigger than CISC? Message-ID: <28636@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 5 Jan 90 15:16:40 GMT References: <1734@petsd.UUCP> Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: tim@amd.com (Tim Olson) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, Texas Lines: 29