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In article <11245@encore.Encore.COM> jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com
(Jeff Kenton) writes:
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| From article <8948@wpi.wpi.edu>, by jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen):
| > (otherwise, I like ARM very much.  A RISC processor you can actually program
| > assembly language in!  How fast is the latest ARM these days?)
| Motorola's 88000 is pretty nice for writing assembly language, and MIPS looks
| decent too, although I haven't tried it.  No opinion on SPARC, but Intel's 860
| looks a little baroque.
| Any other opinions? We haven't had a good religious war in a week or two.
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I really enjoyed programming Am29000 assembler, once I had gotten used
to a real 3-address machine. (Of course I am biased. I was a consultant
to AMD at the time...) It took me a while to quit thinking of it as a
stuttering 2-address machine -- at first I found myself writing everything
as "<op> <dest>, <dest>, <src>". But then the "shape" of the instruction
set started sinking in, and I soon learned to use the 3-addr-ness to save
instructions (cycles). (Though, just because of what is typically being
computed, one still ends up writing many "2-address" instructions.) Overall,
it feels really "clean".

-Rob


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