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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Q: access to subprogram
Date: 1996/07/16
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In article <4sdt1i$nqa@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes:
>Well, there's still going to be a lot of Pentiums out there for quite
>some time -- I wouldn't call the issue entirely moot yet.

I would because the issue is optimization, not functionality.  The people
who want every last cycle of performance are now going to be the ones
who use a P6, not a Pentium.