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In article <26418@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>	The more fundamental issue is how much state does it take
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>	to figure out where you were and get back there.  At the
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>	minimum, this is just a PC.  At worst, the processor dumps at
>	lot of mysterious stuff somewhere.
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>-john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>

  To further the discussion on this issue ....

  There has been lots of discussion about superscalar and VLIW architectures.
  How about instruction continuation and/or restart for these architectures.
  It seems that a N way super-scalar machine would need N PC's and a lot of
  state information. For VLIW machines it seems that instruction continuation
  might be better for restart might first need to roll back partially completed
  operations. 


 Rajiv Patel.