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- From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
- Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:38:54 GMT
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- In article <4248@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> silverm@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Jeff Silverman) writes:
- [...]
- >1) Newer implementations of the alpha may need or take advantage of new ways
- >of ordering instructions. This in turn means that different alpha
- >implementations may need or take advantage of different executables or object
- >modules, each compiled for its own processor. Or maybe the processors will
- >take a performance hit in the name of portability. Who can say?
-
- That's not true of only the Alpha ('tho thay may make no atttempt to lessen
- the blow). One way to solve this problem is to use something like OSF's
- ANDF. I don't know if it is a good way (it has lots of other advantages and
- disadvantages), but it should work.
- [...]
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