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I should say also that the classical MIPS -- ie. no instruction dependencies -- was another mistake in hindsight. What do you mean by "no instruction dependenc
by Annatar 10y ago
I should say also that the classical MIPS -- ie. no instruction dependencies -- was another mistake in hindsight.
What do you mean by "no instruction dependencies"?
- rwmj 10y agoI actually meant "without Interlocked Pipeline Stages" which is what the "IPS" originally stood for in MIPS. Again it's a microarchitectural detail which was exposed through the instruction set, and later MIPS abandoned it.