From: Thiemo S. <th...@ne...> - 2007-09-14 21:07:12
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William Harold Newman wrote: [snip] > Even without esthetic wrong-thing arguments, if the 80kbyte figure > ISTR from IRC is correct, it would be about 0.3% of the core on my > machine. It don't think it's unreasonable to say that 0.3% is "lost in > the noise" --- but I also think that once you do, you should address > the possibility that the proportion of cores where the benefit will be > used might be lost in the noise.:-| I gave that some thought WRT the MIPS port. There it could win 80k by folding error type and the size of the appended data in the illegal instruction itself. :-) I figure it would work that way on all RISC-like architectures. Thiemo |