Pipelined, Superscalar Bathrooms

The Loony Bin ( loonies@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk )
Tue, 9 Apr 1996 23:04:43 +0100


Hiya Folks...

This one's for the Pentium programmers from Alan...sorry non-comp
people...

Wishes & Dreams...

- ANDREA
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     I was at the Computer Game Developers Conference and went to Chris Hecker's
     floating point optimization lecture. 

     After the lecture I went into the bathroom and noticed that it was 
     both pipelined and superscalar.

     pipelined because the process was split into four concurrent stages:

        - entering the room
        - urinating
        - washing up
        - leaving the room

     superscalar because there were:

        - four urinals.
        - three sinks.

     A good example of processor architecture, no ?
     
     :)