the VAX may have the instruction for evaluating polynomials, but have you seen how many JUMPs the pdp-10 has?!
(i am pretty sure the vax actually has the same or more numbers of jump instructions)
@gewt it amuses me that modern GPUs often have fused-multiply-add but no separate add and multiply instructions, because they spend *so* much of their life evaluating little polynomials. :)
