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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: except what, is Vax addressing sane today
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:09:29 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:24:05 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 0:14:49 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> 
>> On 9/21/2024 4:29 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:14:12 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
>>>
>>>> But you are in general right, it makes more sense to keep the
>>>> computer running in the normal case and provide slow ways to recover
>>>> from failures and do something else.
>>>
>>> Aren’t branches that are not taken supposed to be fast?
>>
>> Well, they are not taken, so they should be faster... ;^)
> 
> It is NOT the speed, it is the code bloat.

That’s an argument against RISC though, isn’t it?