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John Bradford wrote: > > > It's also not faster in any meaningful way, since the dynamic > > > translator does optimistic optimization. > > > > Statically compiled code for the Crusoe chips may not be faster. > > (Arguably statically compiled code for _any_ CPU is not the best > > strategy for fast code). > > > > But if someone is able to write better code morphing software than > > Transmeta, that would be faster :) > > The idea of a CMS which only implemented the subset of X86 > instructions that gcc actually uses was discussed on the list a few > months ago, but unsuprisingly it never progressed beyond the thought > experiment stage. What would be the point in that? Surely the CMS overhead for decoding the rarely used x86 instructions is negligable, precisely because of their rarity? -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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