16 Feb
2025
16 Feb
'25
7:39 p.m.
On 2/16/25 15:52, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
CDC 6000-series turned in better performance benchmarks on COBOL that
did the high-end IBM S/370 iron. There are huge advantages to fast
instruction set execution operating on large word sizes. Just ask Don
Nelson (he who played the bass drum in the Los Trancos Woods marching band).
Two things that worked to CDC's advantage in addition to the simple
instruction set was that the 6000 was a three-address architecture with
no condition code register (conditional branches were made on the
content of a register).
--Chuck
On Feb 16, 2025, at 5:30 PM, paul.kimpel--- via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
The question concerned good ALGOL code generation, not the feasibility of ALGOL code
generation.
I know that, but just as RISC machines can run very fast no matter what applications you
feed them, compilers created with skill can produce excellent code no matter the target
machine.