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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: RE: RISC (Actually 68K densities)
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 15:37:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 15:37:35 1985
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> 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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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