[rescue] sparc10 cpu - what to do.

[Dave McGuire]

  Too true.

     -Dave

On 12/20/2016 01:54 PM, Nick B wrote:
> That would involve programmers who are not willing to take the pay scale of
> a 20 year old.
> Nick
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/20/2016 01:29 PM, Mouse wrote:
>>>> I've wondered what kind of performance boost we could get if we ran
>>>> directly at the microcode layer (the one that pretends it's this
>>>> obsolete junk).
>>>
>>> Significant, probably, but also hellishly complicated to do anything
>>> useful with.  Risky, too; microcode tends to allow things like gating
>>> more than one internal register onto an internal data bus at the same
>>> time.  And probably strictly Harvard, rather than von Neumann.
>>>
>>> And very, very processor-rev-specific.
>>
>>   That would very quickly bring back the now-obsolete requirement that
>> programmers actually know what they're doing. ;)
>>
>>                -Dave
>>
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>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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