On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Mattox, Dave wrote: > > I ran a loop 666,000,000 times and it appears that each bundle is taking 3 > seconds to execute. So this means 3 cycles per bundle, > or 1 cycle per instruction. Is the Lion SDV Machine executing instructions > serially? If it is, is it Linux setting this, or are the beta chips disabled > in some manner? > ia64 does not do instruction reordering, at least this is what I've heard, and nothing which I have read until now seems to deny this. All insn ordering for faster execution should therefore be done by the compiler. No URL to give you, sorry... -- Francis Galiegue, fg@mandrakesoft.com "Programming is a race between programmers, who try and make more and more idiot-proof software, and universe, which produces more and more remarkable idiots. Until now, universe leads the race" -- R. CookReceived on Tue Oct 17 10:11:33 2000
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