Reproduction micros

ben bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Thu Jul 21 20:53:25 CDT 2016


On 7/20/2016 10:42 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On 20/07/2016 16:44, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>> It is true that a few RISC architectures are not very scrutable.
>> Itanium is a notorious example, as are some VLIW machines.  But many
>> RISC machines are much more sane.  MIPS and ARM certainly are no
>> problem for any competent assembly language programmer.
>
> Indeed.  I've written a modest amount of assembly language code for
> MIPS, and a bit more for ARM, and I didn't find either at all
> inscrutable.  Yes, be aware of pipelining and branches and so on, but
> it's not hard.

But alas , they seem to change cache and pipeline with every cpu
starting with 386. How can one write effective programs for large
data memory access, with out this knowlage?
Ben.



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