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To: dumbmoney who wrote (51783)3/7/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 1573427
 
dumbmoney,

If you try to translate x86 instructions into, say, MIPS instructions, you find that even simple x86 instructions may require dozens of MIPS instructions to execute in conformance with full x86 semantics. It's messy and SLOW.

I take it that the choice of MIPS in your example was not accidental. ;^) Do you have some familiarity with a CPU that does this?

Scumbria