Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:

Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> schrieb:
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It's still marketing.  I have listened to several talks about
converting S/360 programs to C code that can be run on arbitrary
hardware, and IBM's audience hears about such things, too, so IBM's
sales force has to provide reasons for not jumping ship.  And all
these new features that sound like they are useful are such reasons.
Things like decimal FP and CU14.
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The fact that these feature provide no actual benefit is their best
property:

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No actual benefit?
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If you make such a strong statement, I assume that you have done a
thorough analysis of this feature for typical mainframe workloads
and can support your claims with benchmarks.
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Care to show exactly what you did, and what the results were?

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It provides no actual benefit, because UTF-32 provides no actual
benefit.