On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 05:39:59PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>The assembler (micro?) coder had to
>keep track of which parts of what execution unit would take how long to do
>each instruction, and not rely on results before they were ready. To keep
>the machine actually humming along at even close to half its theoretical
>performance levels bordered on nightmarish.
Seems like assemblers will have to get smarter in the future? Just the
`simple' feature of being able to edit those 8 streams separate would
appearently help a lot, and some visual cue on when an operation is
finished would also be an idea. (Wonder why the last one hasn't been
implemented in any fancy assembler GUI?)
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