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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:54:07 -0700 (PDT)
To: Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net>
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Subject: Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")
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Rick Hohensee writes:
 > Forth chips aren't modern in the true-multi-user sense, but if an
 > individual were to design such a beast they could get several of them,
 > hundreds maybe, on FPGAs available now. Such things are coming, because a 
 > Forth chip IS something an individual can design.

And I suppose this zero-cost call is also handling things like keeping
an N stage deep pipeline full during this call right?

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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