Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

How many clocks did Alpha take to process each instruction?

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For the 21064 see slide 15 of
<https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~randy/Courses/CS252.S96/Lecture19.pdf>

I.e., about 1 CPI for Ear, and about 4.3 CPI for TCP-B, with other
benchmarks in between.
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Theoretical bottom CPI (peak performance) of the 21064 is 0.5.
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- anton