Re: Pentiums and EU

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Robert Craig wrote:
> For example, a Pentium has two instruction pipelines,
> so it can potentially execute 2 machine instructions at the same
> time in parallel (superscalar)
that is the main optimization i was thinking of...

>There's an option to reorder machine
>instructions to make this more likely.
>That option will speed up the code on a Pentium,
>but won't hurt performance on a 386 or 486.
i didn't know that switch existed...
nice switch...

>It's not worth it to have separate versions
>optimized specifically for a 386 or a 486.
now that I know about what you have enumerated
upon here, i would, of course, agree...

thanks for the explanation and reply.
--Hawke'

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