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Article #10884Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:06
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:06
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In article <mwm.2n6z@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) writes: > In <Bxq7y0.IJ@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) wrote: > > With instruction scheduling, one place for an optimizer would be in the > > ASSEMBLER, and even interaction between the programmer and the compiler/ > > assembler. I do not know of any such. > > Herman, I've *never* seen you suggest something that hasn't been tried > already, in some form or another. This is no exception. It's been > tried. It didn't work very well. > Wrong. The MIPS assembler performs some optimizations (like delay slot filling and instruction scheduling). It works quite well. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!cwi.nl!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms) Message-ID: <7903@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 15 Nov 92 23:06:32 GMT References: <TMB.92Nov14145619@pollux.idiap.ch> <Bxq7y0.IJ@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <mwm.2n6z@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> Sender: news@cwi.nl Followup-To: comp.arch Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 15