Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:32:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:32:47 -0500 Received: from hq.fsmlabs.com ([209.155.42.197]:22248 "EHLO hq.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:32:46 -0500 Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:36:04 -0700 From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com To: Xavier Bestel Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call Message-ID: <20030223173604.A30865@hq.fsmlabs.com> References:

<20030223082036.GI10411@holomorphy.com> <1046031687.2140.32.camel@bip.localdomain.fake> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1046031687.2140.32.camel@bip.localdomain.fake>; from xavier.bestel@free.fr on Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 09:21:27PM +0100 Organization: FSM Labs Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 18 On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 09:21:27PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > 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 ? See ARM "thumb" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/