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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
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Subject: Re: Re: RISC
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 22:49:35 EDT
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> > > Also, multiplies are actually fairly infrequent operations in most programs.
> > 
> > That is, if "most programs" don't use multidimensional arrays...
> 
> Except in a few specific environments, most programs indeed do not use
> multidimensional arrays.

Perhaps we could do without the integer multiplier :-), but we had better
not drop the floating point adder and multiplier, and they had both better
operate at one op per clock after filling the pipeline.