Re: Cost of handling misaligned access

According to MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com>:

That's a total of 23 pages, double it for the P0 or P1 page tables,
and it's only 46 pages.
>
That's still kind of a lot.

>
Basically, VAX taught us why we did not want to do "all that" in
a single instruction;

Yes, VAX was brilliantly optimized for hand-coded assembler on a very
memory constrained system where microcode was much faster than main
memory. Too bad that was obsolete by the time they shipped it.

while Intel 432 taught us why we did not bit
aligned decoders (and a lot of other things).

It was certainly an interesting experiment in yet another way that
Intel wanted programmers to use their computers and the programmers
said, naah.


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