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To: Scumbria who wrote (46498)1/18/1999 4:06:00 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1583392
 
Scumbria, >>>Long wires are commonplace in CPU designs, and are usually the result of an
excessively complicated architecture.>>>

Like this one?

That path has been fixed architecturally in K7 (with a three
cycle cache lookup.)


You can't have it both ways, i.e., your desired optimization for clock speed that has to resort to implementations like the above and uncomplicated architecture.

Tony