Re: New assembly language instructions to support OO languages?

Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
6 Dec 2008 11:24:59 GMT

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From: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.arch
Followup-To: comp.arch
Date: 6 Dec 2008 11:24:59 GMT
Organization: Dis (not Dat) Organisation
References: 08-12-014 08-12-016 08-12-019 08-12-028
Keywords: architecture
Posted-Date: 06 Dec 2008 06:44:22 EST

On 2008-12-05, nmm1@cam.ac.uk <nmm1@cam.ac.uk> wrote:


> The reason that it was always nonsense is that instructions have NEVER
> taken about the same amount of time,


incorrect, that may be true on your platfome of choice,
but on small risc microcontrollers like atmel AVR almost every op-code
takes a single cycle. (of-course ther'es no FP and not much RAM, but
it's still a processor)


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