Re: [Linux-ia64] Instruction Execution

Jim Wilson
2000-10-17T18:42:40Z

Instruction timing depends on what instructions you are executing, and where
the stop bits are. If you are running a loop with FP instructions, or a loop
with a lot of serial instruction dependencies, then 1 cycle per instruction
is certainly possible. Since you didn't give any assembly code samples,
it isn't possible to tell if the loop was poorly optimized or not.

Jim