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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (107889)	8/21/2000 1:33:59 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Ten, >Are you saying that the double-speed ALU will only result in larger pipeline bubbles? The way I see it, the sooner integer instructions can be executed, the better. That may not make much of a different in the vast majority of code, but if it can speed up critical sections, such as computational loops where pipeline bubbles are minimized, then all the better. Thank you. It's all a question of usefulness. You seem to be arguing that the double-speed ALU is 100% useless. I'm arguing that even if the thing is 10% useful, it will be worth it as long as implementing it doesn't impact overall clock speed. More thanks. Tony