22 Oct
2006
22 Oct
'06
12:43 p.m.
On 22 Oct 2006 at 11:21, dwight elvey wrote:
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!
ANY machine? I daresay the non-stack Cray C-90 could do considerably
better than that!
My point is that in the somewhat rarefied supercomputer world where
computational performance is pretty much the entire game, not ONE
machine deployed as far as I know was a stack machine. It would seem
that if a stack machine had it all over memory-register systems
performance-wise that you'd find at least a single instance of one in
that market.
...and how does one efficiently do large vector arithmetic on a stack
machine?
Cheers,
Chuck