Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:36:04 -0700 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 09:21:27PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le dim 23/02/2003 à 20:17, Linus Torvalds a écrit : > > > And the baroque instruction encoding on the x86 is actually a _good_ > > thing: it's a rather dense encoding, which means that you win on icache. > > It's a bit hard to decode, but who cares? Existing chips do well at > > decoding, and thanks to the icache win they tend to perform better - and > > they load faster too (which is important - you can make your CPU have > > big caches, but _nothing_ saves you from the cold-cache costs). > > Next step: hardware gzip ?
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