by Anonymous Coward....
Well, we all know how the French fight wars...we shouldn't expect any different.
Im sure you got some french blood inside your body.
Thats right, that what branch predictor are for, and alpha's one has 99% success rate, it use 3 methods (local prediction, global prediction, and a statistical one which choose between the two previous result).
Anyway, alpha's cache is fucking fast, and its not only about cache, its also between register. Alpha owns 2*80 internal registers with 64 publicly available. And it also owns a register rewrite systeme wich is common in superscalaire architecture (multi-pipeline).
Dont mess with Alpha, its a fucking daemon !@#
and i love it
Memory isnt a problem its cheap and you have a lot of it. Alpha processor were designed to be fast, fastest of the world in computation.
So the point of size of binary isnt important on calculus server like alpha.
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by Anonymous Coward.... Well, we all know how the French fight wars...we shouldn't expect any different. Im sure you got some french blood inside your body.
Thats right, that what branch predictor are for, and alpha's one has 99% success rate, it use 3 methods (local prediction, global prediction, and a statistical one which choose between the two previous result). Anyway, alpha's cache is fucking fast, and its not only about cache, its also between register. Alpha owns 2*80 internal registers with 64 publicly available. And it also owns a register rewrite systeme wich is common in superscalaire architecture (multi-pipeline). Dont mess with Alpha, its a fucking daemon !@# and i love it
Memory isnt a problem its cheap and you have a lot of it. Alpha processor were designed to be fast, fastest of the world in computation. So the point of size of binary isnt important on calculus server like alpha.