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|    Stefan Monnier to All    |
|    Re: Multi-op instructions    |
|    29 Dec 25 17:48:29    |
      From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca              >> Do you have a reference to that? I can't see any trace of that in the       >> SPARC ISA, so I assume it was done via instruction fusion instead?       > It is not in ISA, and it is not "like" instruction Fusion, either.       > When a first instruction had a property*, and a second instruction also       > had a certain property*, they would be issued together into the execution       > pipeline. The first instruction executes in the first cycle, the second       > instruction in the second cycle with forwarding of the result of the first       > to the second.              Oh, I see, thanks. Apparently they called this "cascading".                      Stefan              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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