From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5a97e6705e234408 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-22 07:36:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!POSTED.newshog.newsread.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BACA1F3.C3988023@intercom.com> From: "David B. Littell" Reply-To: davidl@intercom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Expected bytes per sloc (semicolons) performance References: <8f23da36.0109181403.52128d70@posting.google.com> <_hRp7.7630$ot.1153235@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net> <5ee5b646.0109190213.1092dc91@posting.google.com> <3BA93BB1.3685D423@intercom.com> <3BA9D2F9.AEAC7E33@gmx.de> <9ocprs$e684@news.kvaerner.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:36:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.105.16.171 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 1001169396 64.105.16.171 (Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:36:36 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:36:36 EDT Organization: Intercom Online (intercom.com) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13248 Date: 2001-09-22T14:36:36+00:00 List-Id: "Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote: > > Steffen Huber wrote > >I don't know much about the MIPS architecture, but are you sure about the > >ARM? AFAIK, there is no such thing as a branch delay slot. Branches are > >(after flushing the pipeline of course) taken directly. > > When the ARM arrived the branch delay was published widely. > > I know nothing about MIPS peculiarities. > Steffen was quite right - the ARM doesn't implement delayed branches. My mistake. He's also right in that the ARM is probably the cleanest of all the commonly used architectures. But I still think all those special exception-time mode registers are pretty grody. ;-) Sorry to derail the semicolon performance thread. We now return you to the regularly scheduled AdaOS feature dreams... Dave