Re: Superscalar vs. multiple CPUs ?

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From: Dan Prener
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:01

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In article <1992Dec11.060038.27494@netcom.com> norm@netcom.com (Norman Hardy) writes:

> How about sharing expensive functional units (multiply, divide, 
> DES) between processors on the same chip. This gives the economic 
> advantages of heterogeneous processors (division of labor) without 
> the software pain. The processors would appear to the operating 
> system as CPUs sharing memory. Indeed this approach makes special 
> purpose hardware more attractive as functional units.

Doesn't that make saving the state of a processor somewhat complicated?
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                                   Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)

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Subject: Re: Superscalar vs. multiple CPUs ?
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