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To: Scumbria who wrote (107870)8/21/2000 11:55:53 AM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Scumbria, >Because that is exactly what it is. Arithmetic operations are a small part of a modern pipeline.

Fine. Either way, if it's a critical path resource that must be used for arithmetic operations, the faster that any and all operations in it get executed, the better off all the instructions are in a given stream. The tollbooth analogy.

Tony