Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 13:25:57 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, Kevin AT Quitt DOT net, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Is DJGPP that efficient?
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On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Leath Muller wrote:

> 
> Well, the stack method is pretty crumby (I used to use the 040, and it
> was nice... :) but it gains some forgivness with the fxch being free,
> generally being the equivalent of being able to load into any register
> (IMHO BTW).  I can't see this really ever changing though - Motorola
> created a completely new CPU to get past the limit of the 680x0 range,
> and I don't think Intel will be doing that... ;)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Leathal.
> 

at the risk of being in over my depth, isn't the P7 at least partially
based on the PA-RISC architecture? I'm no FPU expert, but one variant of
PA-RISC (the one in the HP9000/700 I think) has really astounding SPECfp
ratings (about 3x the SPECint rating..)
 
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