Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: jan@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Jan Vorbrueggen)
Subject: Re: CJ comments
Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Date: 06 Apr 94 18:11:45 GMT
Message-ID: <JAN.94Apr6191145@thalia.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

In article <2nsk6b$fh8@fenris.com> bailey@fix.fenris.com (Kirk Bailey) writes:

   Of course, now days only fossils worry about how fast their code executes
   so perhaps someone should just shoot me and get it over with...

I agree with that sentiment...maybe we should rent somebody with a
double-barreled shotgun :-)

	Jan

PS: BTW, another wart, for conceivably ideological reasons, was to allocate
in, out, runp, etc, to short instructions - they're fairly rare and take
longishly anyway, so why waste precious opcode space? dup, for instance, would
ha' been a good contender for the spot... 

