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Subject: Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call
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Le dim 23/02/2003 ? 20:17, Linus Torvalds a ?crit :

> 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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