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Article #2876Re: Delayed Loads
From: kjm
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1986 03:15
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1986 03:15
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>e) The CDC 6600 probably falls in e), i.e., the FORTRAN compiler would
>rearrange code to help things go fast, but the hardware could handle
>all of the interlocks itself [I think. Anybody know different?]
>[John Mashey]
This is correct. CDC 6600's and their descendants have a reservation
scheme which delays execution of an instruction if a register it uses
is being loaded from memory.
--
Kenneth J. Montgomery "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Delayed Loads Message-ID: <4009@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 23:15:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.4009 Posted: Thu Sep 18 23:15:18 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Sep-86 00:10:39 EDT References: <694@mips.UUCP> Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 17