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From: Thomas.Koenig@online.de (Thomas Koenig)
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Subject: Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes
Date: 5 Mar 2002 09:58:48 +0100
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 <tmoran@acm.org> wrote:

>---------------
>*real* programmers know the cycle time of each instruction.

If that helps you any, in the days of RISC, pipeling, caches,
etc... and even then, that may only work for a given combination
of processor, intermediate cache, main and virtual memory.

Very often, it's cache misses where cycles are burned these days,
not individual machine instructions.