22 Oct
2006
22 Oct
'06
11:54 a.m.
dwight elvey wrote:
A) Memory access time???
B) Code & data listing???
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at
sydex.com>
---SNIP---
Stack machines have been with us at least since the early 60's.
There must be a reason that when it comes to applications needing raw
performance that no manufacturer adopts the model.
Cheers,
Chuck
Hi
Take any machine from the 1990's and write a routine that
can sort 1K 16 bit integers in 19.2ms. That was done on a
stack machine running with a 4 MHz clock! A machine that blends the best parts of stacks and
registers is actually the best.
It has never been about how good the processor is. It is
mostly marketing.
Like Mr Gates and his wonderfull Wind^H^H^H^H BASIC.
Dwight
PS, Does anybody have BYTE's small C
benchmarks on line?