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Subject: Re: x86 (and IA64)

Author: David Fotland

Date: 14:12:27 06/04/98

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On June 03, 1998 at 19:58:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

snipped... IA64 and x86 discussion

>
>It's time for a revamp to get rid of that old architectural fiasco, and
>give us an architecture that is pleasant to program in assembly
>language,
>not one that makes you keep a supply of air-sickness bags handy... :)

The goals were performance and compatibility, not ease of assembly
language programming.  Predication, speculation, and explicit
parallelism can make it quite difficult to write correct assembly
language, and even more difficult to write assembly with optimal
performance.  You may want to stick to C as much as possible.

David



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