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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