Hobart Spitz wrote, in part:

>This is a great comment.  I hadn't given that much thought to the question.

>Not to split hairs, but I didn't say MIPS, I said hardware.

>If I had to guess, MIPS usage might actually increase slightly, because the
>Pipes dispatcher has to switch between stages twice for every record that
>is passed.

 

Sure, just sayin' you'd want to be very clear about what you do mean.

 

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "more MIPS but less hardware", though?


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