Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions

From	MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com>
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Subject	Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions
Date	2012-03-09 13:10 -0800
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On Friday, March 9, 2012 2:30:54 PM UTC-6, Joe keane wrote:
> Maybe it takes more transistors to not implement them.

It probably takes more transistors in the decode stage of the pipeline to decode the new instructions that all the transistors used in the "performance" of the instruction at the memory.

Mitch

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Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions "Andy (Super) Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2012-03-06 20:20 -0800
  Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions "Paul A. Clayton" <paaronclayton@gmail.com> - 2012-03-07 05:43 -0800
    Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions "Andy (Super) Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2012-03-07 07:00 -0800
      Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2012-03-07 15:25 +0000
      Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions "Paul A. Clayton" <paaronclayton@gmail.com> - 2012-03-09 11:05 -0800
  Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2012-03-07 20:00 +0100
    Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2012-03-07 13:43 -0800
      Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions "Andy (Super) Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2012-03-08 09:08 -0800
        Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2012-03-08 18:39 +0100
          Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-03-08 22:33 +0100
          Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions "Andy (Super) Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2012-03-08 17:17 -0800
          Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2012-03-09 08:19 -0800
            Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2012-03-09 17:45 +0100
    Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-03-09 20:30 +0000
      Re: Ne(ish) IBM z196 synchronization instructions MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2012-03-09 13:10 -0800

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