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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: except what, is Vax addressing sane today
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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... ;^)