From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Wilson Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:42:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Instruction Execution Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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