Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:06:19 +0100 | From | ralf@uni-kobl ... | Subject | Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127) |
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On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:45:10PM +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> So 30% speed increase would amount to 8 months hardware lead in speed. > I don't think that's worth it. I also don't think we ought to rewrite > the microcode of the pentium II to support us better, although I think > that's possible ...
Microcode is dark magic in some sense. And there is no reason to expect it to make huge differences in performance. Actually after once debugging Linux/MIPS running on a unborn CPU simulated at 10 instructions per second on a dual Ultrasparc I'm healed from trying to mess with CPU internals.
Ralf
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