Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: RE: RISC (Actually 68K densities) Message-ID: <5794@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 15:37:35 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5794 Posted: Mon Jul 15 15:37:35 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 15:37:35 EDT References: <12200008@orstcs.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 > As I read, I see a *lot* of comments about how "most 68xxx & 32xxx > instructions take 32 bits anyway!" I would like to suggest that a large > factor in this may be due to *sloppy compilers*! ... > ... > Is there an assembly-language programmer in the house? Speaking as the one who started this particular line of discussion, the numbers I originally quoted were from people working in assembler, doing implementations of the same little interpretive-language kernel on various different machines. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry