In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/01/2008
at 11:44 PM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>With instruction pipelining,
Even without pipelining there were serious complexities as far back as
S/370.
>Do try to use RI-format instructions like LOAD HALFWORD IMMEDIATE
>to avoid storage reference or address generation.
Have you stopped doing address generation during I-fetch? Or are you
worried about register reservation?
IAC, I'd say worry about the algorithm before you worry about the code,
and worry about maintainability before micro-optimization.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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