Patch for PR target/20632
Vladimir N. Makarov
vmakarov@redhat.com
Fri Apr 1 22:33:00 GMT 2005
Geert Bosch wrote:
> Instead of executing complex instructions, such a memory loads and
> stores that may take many cycles to complete, the processor now only
> needs to execute these much simplified instructions. Taking advantage
> of the explicit parallelism in the code, the current Itanium-2 processors
> are capable of executing up to 6 of these instructions in one cycle,
> thereby fully realizing the promises of Intel's EPIC architecture by
> computing absolutely nothing at unprecedented speeds.
I got it :) It is 1st April. At least we see that the processor does
nothing. You will never see it in modern x86 and x86_64 processors. It
is a black box (with their mysterious micro-ops which could be combined
producing other mysterious things) resulting in try and pray
optimization approach.
Vlad
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