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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-11-03 18:39:41 +0000,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:

> In article <230f493b-7b7c-4e12-8eee-8fdc1c7b9baa at googlegroups.com>, Bob 
> Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes:
>> {...snip...}
>> 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.
> 
> Are looking to hire me? :P

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