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To: Elmer who wrote (95777)	2/29/2000 1:38:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

Elmer, This is an issue of terminology and you've played it to discredit what is really going on. I have described exactly what is going on in many posts. 1. The speed of a pipeline is determined by the slowest pipe stage. 2. The double pumped ALU speeds up the case where a second ALU instruction is stalled waiting for results from a prior ALU instruction. This feature speeds up that particular instruction by 5% (one pipe stage out of 20.) The overall performance gain is probably very small. Scumbria