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Re: Outlaw ImpRings? - There's a better way

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From: Pierre Baillargeon
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 17:08
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Daniel Starr (starr-daniel@yale.edu) wrote:
: In article <78903@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7804b@prism.gatech.EDU (Wayne Edward Sheppard) writes:
: > [deleted]
: >
: >If an impring had more points, wouldn't it be easier to kill?
: >
: Nope.  The nifty thing about an impring, after all, is that just like
: a classic imp, each instruction prepares the very next one that executes.
: As a result, no matter how many points there are, only one -- the one
: about to execute -- is vulnerable to bombing/mutation at any given time.
:
: [deleted]

  Well, a ring with more points has more vulnerable point and move slower.
Also, since most ring a multiprocessed (!?) one way to to throw them off-balance
is to increment the B operand (unfortunalty, normal hill preclude '>').  This
make the last processes bomb the firsts which eventually die.  Finally, more
processes means a longer vulnerable time at the beginning.

  A smaller launch method exist, but it is slower:

	spl 1
	spl 1
	spl inc
go	jmp @0,imp
inc	add #2667,go
	dat #0,#0
imp mov 0,2667

--
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...........................................................dak@info.polymtl.ca
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