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Re: Please listen to Ulrich here...



Ulrich Kulisch wrote, replying to David Lester:
> I thank you again for your very interesting mail.  It shows indeed
> that the long accumulator method is most energy efficient.

When it is being used!  One of the issues is that CPUs tend to be
designed to cover a large general range of applications, and devoting
a few thousand bits to rarely-used registers and control logic may be
considered an unwise investment.

This suggests that the resources needed for Complete Arithmetic should
be designed in a manner that allows them to be used effectively for more
general things, such as a larger physical register file, exploitation of
Simultaneous MultiThreading, SIMD arithmetic etc.

Michel.
---Sent: 2013-08-12 18:00:23 UTC