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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] compilers - was GUI toolkit for Plan 9
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:55:16 +0000
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"AMSRL-CI-CN" <gwyn@arl.army.mil> writes:

> Unfortunately, performance expectations for new processors require
> rather complex architectures involving multiple concurrent pipelines,
> etc. making efficient use of the architectures difficult; therefore more
> responsibility is placed on the code generators.  This seems inevitable.

GCC has a generic mechanism for describing pipelined architectures
that is pretty good.  

Thomas