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Technology Stocks : MSFT: Will NT kill SUN, HP and IBM?
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To: Kev. who wrote (88)8/19/1997 10:13:00 AM
From: David A. Lethe   of 100
 
Ouch: No wonder you don't like PA-RISC assembler. Don't go down that path. HP's C compilers have the best optimization in the industry.

Unless you are in the top 1% of ASM coders in the country, chances are that a ANSI C program will compile into more efficient code. Their compilers take full advantage of pipelining, branch prediction, and so on. Even though you might generate less op codes manually, the compiler will generally see to it that you will use less clock cycles.

x86 sucks ... I agree.

Merced will probably be a chip set, rather than a single microprocessor, with some external microcode. Word isn't out that it will execute PA-RISC code and x86 concurrently.
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