In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/01/2008
at 10:33 PM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The first several pages would have to explain the pipeline design and
>the delays that can occur. After that, specific instruction timings
>would have to assume the pipeline is flowing freely.
The last time I saw instruction timings, the manual didn't address the
pipeline and it still had complex formulae. I'm confident that assuming
the pipeline to be instantaneous would still leave the timing manual too
large to be of use.
--
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)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
