From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/01/06
Date: 2000-01-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <852bco$7q5@ftp.kvaerner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8527o7$e2o$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de
Georg Bauhaus wrote in message <8527o7$e2o$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
>Robert Dewar (robert_dewar@my-deja.com) wrote:
>: In article <84vev2$7p4@ftp.kvaerner.com>,
>
>: Besides which, many applications are smaller and run faster in
>: 32-bit mode, so why would you switch them in any case?
>
>If increasing word size is about addressing larger memories
>and packing more ops in a word, (which might not alway be achievable?)
>why is it that relatively few money is spent on alternative improvements,
>like parallelism related research and hardware, at least PR wise?
>I have a feeling like there are some valuable pieces of technology
>lying around still rather unnoticed. Like transputers?
I think you will find that more advanced processors have more processing units
onboard. e.g. more ALUs and more FPUs. This allows them to do more than one
thing at a time. How useful this is for all applications I don't know. But it
is not entirely unthinkable that it helps execution speed.
Greetings,
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-02 0:00 Y21C Bug reason67
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Y21C Bug :-) Charles Hixson
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Y21C Bug Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Al Christians
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Mats Weber
[not found] ` <387dfb1e.cbbf14c7@mail.com>
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen [this message]
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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