Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:32:06 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Alternative patching for prefetches & cleanup |
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Hmm. I thought using the Fibonaci sequence for this was clever :-)
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 08:22:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That's not the fibonacci sequence, that's just a regular sigma(i) > (i=1..n) sequence. And if you were to generate the sequence numbers at > compile-time I might agree with you, if you also were to avoid using > inline asms.
Such things may be checked with:
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/index.html
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