Tag Archives: Linux and the Alpha

David Mosberger Issue #43, November 1997 Part 2 brings us optimization techniques for speeding up code to get the best performance from your Alpha or other RISC processor. In this article, I will discuss techniques to optimize code for platforms running Linux on Alpha processors. It is based on four years of experience with the Alpha architecture. The primary lesson ...

David Mosberger Issue #42, October 1997 This is the first of a 2 part series, an introduction to the Alpha family of computers in preparation for giving us the techniques for optimizing code on this high-performance platform in Part 2. Ever since its announcement in the Fall of 1991, the Alpha architecture (see Reference 3) has been the foundation of ...