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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 231.80+1.7%Jan 16 3:59 PM EST
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To: pgerassi who wrote (53366)8/31/2001 11:33:29 AM
From: jcholewaRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
> Athlon is the only x86 CPU IIRC which can decode 3
> x86 instructions per cycle

counterargument:
azillionmonkeys.com
"So when everything is working well, the P-II can take 3 simple x86 instructions and turn them into 3 micro-ops on every clock. But, as can be plainly seen in their comments, they have a bizzare problem: they can only read two physical input register operands per clock (rename registers are not constrained by this condition.) This means scheduling becomes very complicated. Registers to be read for multiple purposes will not cost very much, and data dependencies don't suffer from any more clocks than expected, however the very typical trick of spreading calculations over several registers (used especially in loop unrolling) will upper bound the pipeline to two micro-ops per clock because of a physical register read bottleneck."
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