In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/01/2008
at 11:20 AM, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I know that some of the people on the ASSEMBLER list have done
>instruction timings for some specific instructions. But they are going to
>vary based on the machine. So, short of coding up each routine and timing
>it yourself, I don't know of any way to do this. IBM simply does not
>document this any more.
Were IBM to document it, the timing manual for any of the current
processors would be immense.
>On the current machines, there are two classes of instructions.
AFAIK, there are three: hardwired, microcoded and millicoded.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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