Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: faster strcpy() | Date | 26 Apr 1998 17:07:47 GMT |
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Followup to: <19980426184454.43493@twilight.ucw.cz> By author: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech-lists@twilight.ucw.cz> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The term "RISC-like internal design" makes sense. I'm not completely > sure about how the Pentium looks inside, but for example the NexGen > 586, (and this applies to K6, too, but not to Cyrixes) was > completely RISC inside - breaking up the x86 instructions into RISC > code and then executing the RISC instructions. It could be even > switched to RISC-only mode that'd fetch the RISC instructions from > memory directly without the x86->RISC translation. > > If the Pentium follows a similar design, which it supposedly does, then I > think it can be called a "RISC-like internal design". >
If anything, it's the opposite. One of the salient points of RISC is to avoid exactly this kind of translation engines.
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