Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/28/84; site lll-crg.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!brooks From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.arch Subject: Re: Re: RISC Message-ID: <659@lll-crg.ARPA> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 22:49:35 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.659 Posted: Mon Jun 24 22:49:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 05:38:52 EDT References: <639@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <2743@nsc.UUCP> <576@terak.UUCP> <5690@utzoo.UUCP>, <1109@peora.UUCP> <5716@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG group Lines: 10 Xref: watmath net.micro.68k:959 net.arch:1473 > > > 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.