Re: faster strcpy()

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Sat, 25 Apr 1998 23:54:02 -0400

> The Pentium indeed has a much simpler design. But RISC-like, no. Not even
> between a handful of quotes. A "RISC-like" internal design cannot exist since
> RISC refers to a style of instruction sets and has nothing whatsoever to do
> with any implementation style.

This might be off-topic but the AMD K6 is very RISCish since it converts
the Intel CISC instructions down to the engine's RISC data pump. I really
wish they'd hurry with the K6+ and such since Intel is starting to pull
away in the lead from them. K6+ will basically be a K6 with Ppro properties..
L1 cache of 256k on the chip. Most excellent, and a pipelined FPU finally.

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