[Info-vax] Poulson info from Dave Cantor

[Bob Koehler]

In article <abbe7349-7bf9-47ec-af88-346835b19a50 at v19g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, H Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
> On 17 nov, 19:54, "John Reagan" <johnrrea... at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT111710021604
>>
>> John
> 
> John,  the article mentions the relationship between hardware
> performance and compiler design.
> Assuming that the two options mentioned in the article are true, what
> would that change for your compilers?
> The author writes: "Itanium relies on compilers to aggressively
> schedule instructions for parallel execution into bundles."
> What does "...aggressivively schedule..." mean in terms of compiler
> design ?
> Hans

   Perhaps we can learn from the opposite:  a poor compiler would
   frequently punt, filling bundles with NOPs.