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Article #28303Weighty instructions (was Re: Atari Transputers ? & A British ST/Amiga Rival ?)
From: David Herron -- Resident E-mail ...
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1987 17:18
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1987 17:18
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what is needed is a way of weighting the instructions on various
processors against some absolute scale. then you could do something
like:
sum-for-i-from-0-to-n (wieght-of-instruction-i * #-of-times-executed)
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number-of-seconds
and have a really useful measure.
(Wish this terminal would do capital-sigma's)
My vague memory of calculus reminds me of "moment arms"
Of course the "weight-of-instruction-i" term is non-trivial.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Weighty instructions (was Re: Atari Transputers ? & A British ST/Amiga Rival ?) Message-ID: <7422@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 13:18:53 EDT Article-I.D.: e.7422 Posted: Tue Oct 6 13:18:53 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 06:16:51 EDT References: <1138@water.waterloo.edu> <2452@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Distribution: world Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 19