Assembly or ....

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <1988Nov29.181235.23628 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Alas, if you buy your newer faster CPUs from Motorola or Intel, they can't
> tell you how many cycles each instruction takes!

Why is this?  When I was hacking on the VAX, nobody could ever
tell me how long anything took, and empirical measurements were
pretty tedious.  Is it laziness on the vendor's part or are there
good reasons for this?

    Steve

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