1 Jan
2009
1 Jan
'09
11:06 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
For that matter (sorry for the mass indigestion),
surely Intel is studying
and doing massive statistical analyses of the relative frequency of
different instructions
Presumably - I expect this is common practice for all CPU manufacturers (and
what I believe fed the first RISC designs way back when)
If their data is real world, then such
optimizations would ultimately result in creation of processors that are
specifically optimized for the weirdities of Windoze!
Multiple types of halt instruction, you mean?