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authorJose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>2002-04-08 00:26:37 +0000
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@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file mdk.texi for copying conditions.
-@c $Id: mdk_tut.texi,v 1.6 2002/03/19 22:38:13 jao Exp $
+@c $Id: mdk_tut.texi,v 1.7 2002/04/08 00:26:37 jao Exp $
@node MIX and MIXAL tutorial, Getting started, Installing MDK, Top
@comment node-name, next, previous, up
@@ -793,19 +793,20 @@ counter, while @samp{HLT} usually marks program termination.
@cindex exection time
@cindex time
-When writing MIXAL programs (or any kind of programs, for that matter),
-whe shall often be interested in their execution time. Loosely speaking,
-we will interested in the answer to the question: how long takes a
-program to execute? Of course, this execution time will be a function of
-the input size, and the answer to our question is commonly given as the
-asymptotic behaviour as a function of the input size. At any rate, to
-compute this asymptotic behaviour, we need a measure of how long
-execution of a single instruction takes in our (virtual) CPU. Therefore,
-each MIX instruction will have an associated execution time, given in
-arbitrary units (in a real computer, the value of this unit will depend
-on the hardware configuration). When our MIX virtual machine executes
-programs, it will give you the value of their execution time based upon
-the execution time of each single instruction.
+When writing MIXAL programs (or any kind of programs, for that
+matter), whe shall often be interested in their execution
+time. Loosely speaking, we will interested in the answer to the
+question: how long takes a program to execute? Of course, this
+execution time will be a function of the input size, and the answer to
+our question is commonly given as the asymptotic behaviour as a
+function of the input size. At any rate, to compute this asymptotic
+behaviour, we need a measure of how long execution of a single
+instruction takes in our (virtual) CPU. Therefore, each MIX
+instruction will have an associated execution time, given in arbitrary
+units (in a real computer, the value of this unit will depend on the
+hardware configuration). When our MIX virtual machine executes
+programs, it will (optionally) give you the value of their execution
+time based upon the execution time of each single instruction.
In the following table, the execution times (in the above mentioned
arbitrary units) of the MIX instructions are given.