shorts vs. ints on a VAX 11/750
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Sat Jul 20 12:47:30 AEST 1985
>Well, there isn't any extra overhead with fetching a long as opposed to a
>short -- the fetch is always 32 bits.
On a 780, the fetch is actually 64 bits (at least memory->cache---how
wide is the cache->CPU path?).
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