From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180604100826t234bd9c4jd65293c0397caf62@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:26:56 -0600 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc In-Reply-To: <9B80B8DA-2156-4219-8EFF-D3DF15DA7208@telus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <443A6716.5020801@lanl.gov> <9B80B8DA-2156-4219-8EFF-D3DF15DA7208@telus.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 343962ce-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > One processor I'm dealing with has something like a 19 cycle branch > miss penalty, on a machine where it's memory is only 7 cycles away, ...[snip]... > Worst quote from Sony: "Think in assembler, but code in C++" that's an interesting processor you're describing there :)