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On Sun, 24 Feb 2003, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > If you really do mean compressed cache I don't think anybody has done > that for real. people are doing this *for real* -- it really depends on what you define as compressed. ARM thumb is definitely a compression function for code. x86 native instructions are compressed compared to the RISC-like micro-ops which a processor like athlon, p3, and p4 actually execute. for similar operations, an x86 would average probably 1.5 bytes to encode what a 32-bit RISC would need 4 bytes to encode. -dean - 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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