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29 Jul 2024 20:24:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: function optimization question  
From: Warp
Date: 30 Mar 2002 08:36:19
Message: <3ca5bf52@news.povray.org>
Jan Walzer <jan### [at] lzernet> wrote:
> I'm wondering, what kind of instruction word this ASM-interpreter uses ...

> are they more CISC- or more RISC- like ? ...

  That depends on how you define CISC and RISC.
  I don't think there are really many instructions, so one could say that
it's a "reduced instruction set". However, one typical feature of CISC is
that each instruction takes the same amount of memory and 1 clock cycle to
execute, which I don't think is the case.

> BTW: What 'bout self-modifying code ? ... that would be nice ... back to oldschool

  I doubt that you have any possibility of writing to memory.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -


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