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To: Mark Brophy who wrote (4457)	10/21/1996 7:20:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	of 186894

Mark - Re:"That first time it translates the code to the Alpha instruction set and you run at full Alpha speed on subsequent runs... If a simple piece of code, with NO BRANCHES or JUMPS, was translated this scenario might hold. However, as most code contains many conditional branches and jumps, the first pass through a translator may not even ENCOUNTER many of the target branches or jump sequences that will be executed on subsequent passes through conditional loops. In this manner, the "once-translated" code may not even work the second time time it is executed if the "untranslated" branches are selected differently from the "first pass" through the conditional loops. The Intel 8080/8085 to 8086 translator worked on object code, not binary code, as I recall. This object code, containing the full listing (target branch addresses, etc.), could be translated in its entirety without loss of code. Paul

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