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- From: rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp)
- Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:35:25 GMT
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- In article <willmore.722118562@help.cc.iastate.edu>, willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes:
- |> I don't expect that will be much of a problem with the Alpha. From the way the
- |> archetecture is designed, it looks like the most optimization and ordering takes
- |> place on-chip. The compiler orders things in a fairly general way which the CPU
- |> schedules. I wouldn't say that Alpha eliminates all code ordering problems, but
- |> it should be less effected than other archetectures. At least I hope so.
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- Are you sure you're talking about the 21064 implementation of Alpha? I
- believe it's a very vanilla superscalar implementation (kind of an
- oxymoron at this point, huh?). It doesn't do any of that far-out,
- register-renaming, out-of-order stuff, as far as I know. Now, I do
- know of another architecture that will do all this stuff, but I don't
- want to be too self-serving here... 8-)
-
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