[Info-vax] Microsoft: Alpha architecture responsible for poor Windows file compression

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In article <230f493b-7b7c-4e12-8eee-8fdc1c7b9baa at googlegroups.com>, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes:
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>In this case, it would be interesting to see if the original compression sc=
>heme (the one with "poor" Alpha performance) had been re-coded in MACRO-64 =
>by a proficient MACRO-64 programmer. My experience on other architectures i=
>n similar situations is that re-coding such an "inner loop" construct in op=
>timized assembler (religiously eliminating non-64-bit memory references) wo=
>uld have closed the gap and likely then some.

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