[plug] ia64 linux = P4? & general Q re speed and if anyone has tried it

[Mike]

At 06:27 PM 4/10/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>>Isn't that meant to be Intel's CISC architecture ???
>
>No. Although intel did make CISC CPUs, that completely stopped at the 
>Pentium range of CPUs which use RISC. AMD and IBM still produce CISC based 
>processors (CISC -Complex Instruction Set, RISC -Reduced Instruction Set) 
>but intel certainly don't make them anymore as they moved into the 
>"streamline" market.

! Huh !

<hrrrm> The conventional issue about RISC is the reduced number of
instructions for simple decoding by the cpu's instruction decoder.

Just because the cpu can decode instructions in one clock cycle
does not necessarily make the CPU a 'RISC' design when it inherently
has to cope with CISC type instructions - which have a huge "set" !