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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b69a8818c20ab9f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" Subject: Re: Y21C Bug Date: 2000/01/06 Message-ID: <852bco$7q5@ftp.kvaerner.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 569115805 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <84nqbo$q28$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <84o0g2$u8v$1@nnrp1.deja.com><84pvrs$7q1@ftp.kvaerner.com> <84sltt$7s3@ftp.kvaerner.com> <84t966$be0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <84vev2$7p4@ftp.kvaerner.com> <8505tc$be4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8527o7$e2o$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 Organization: Kv�rner Group IT Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote in message <8527o7$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,