Off-topic, but what do you think of this article by Agner Fog, considering that Linus and H. Peter Anvin once worked at Transmeta and H. Peter Anvin now works at Intel:
http://agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=25
Particularly look under "Pentium Appendix H".
Yuhong Bao
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