Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!otc!softway!chris
From: chris@softway.oz (Chris Maltby)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The VAX Always Uses Fewer Instructions
Summary: pointless debate
Keywords: VAX MIPS
Message-ID: <404@softway.oz>
Date: 21 Jun 88 04:12:39 GMT
References: <6921@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <28200161@urbsdc> <10595@sol.ARPA> <11981@mimsy.UUCP> <914@entropy.ms.washington.edu> <8717@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
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This debate is just a waste of time. I don't care what the assembler
code looks like or how many instructions there are etc etc.
It seems that we are going to see a lot of RISC machines from now
on, not because they are a clean or nice way to do things, but because
they are easier to design than complex instruction set machines.
This means that new technology hits the market first with a RISC
architecture and it goes faster (for that reason alone) than the
CISC machines released along side it which use older technology.

In any case, all these dodgy machine architectures have put
compiler writers back in business after the 68000 era ...
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