Re: What is Occam's Razor wrt Compression?

David Long (dxlong@aol.net)
Fri, 20 Feb 1998 20:09:41 -0500

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>Pretty much the only place not to use compression is sending
>instructions to the microprocessor.

Have we already forgotten CISC? some sample VAX opcodes:

POLYx: polynomial evaluation - took a table of coefficients as an arg.
INSQUE: add entry to head *or* tail of queue, with consistency checks
CALLG: the procedure linkage homage to readv() and writev()

-Dave

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