From: Bruce Ellis <brucee@chunder.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: alef on sources
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:25:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B5C209.8070604@chunder.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fb938881e4dbc4ed1fe30fd429187a9@vitanuova.com>
pretty much right. if you have any more questions about
the AMD64 then private mail is fine - i know it a bit.
hey - how's the new 8c? i've gone a bit nutty on the
32 bit stuff that wasn't optimized very well (mul, div).
release next rainy day.
brucee
C H Forsyth wrote:
>>>far as i can tell. amd64 is not all that attractive to
>>>me any more because of the intel ISA and the lack of gp
>>>registers.
>
> to be fair, there are a few more registers in the AMD64, R8 to R15 i think, with vaguely
> general application, although some of the old register restrictions apply.
> there is also a more conventional model for floating-point. best of all,
> new prefix bytes allow you to end up with magnificent 15-byte instructions! such magic!
> no other architecture is like it.
>
> i look forward to having my loft warm in winter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-27 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-27 1:51 Matthew Swank
2004-05-27 2:14 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-27 2:20 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-27 16:26 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-05-28 1:25 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-28 3:47 ` dvd
2004-05-28 5:12 ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-28 6:20 ` Nigel Roles
2004-05-28 6:38 ` lucio
2004-05-28 6:52 ` Nigel Roles
2004-05-28 8:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-05-28 19:34 ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-27 4:21 ` ron minnich
2004-05-27 4:39 ` [9fans] plan9 on xen Russ Cox
2004-05-27 5:14 ` George Michaelson
2004-05-27 5:33 ` Russ Cox
2004-05-27 5:43 ` George Michaelson
2004-05-27 13:45 ` ron minnich
2004-05-27 13:44 ` ron minnich
2004-05-27 13:42 ` ron minnich
2004-05-27 5:10 ` [9fans] Re: alef on sources Christopher Nielsen
2004-05-27 8:05 ` C H Forsyth
2004-05-27 10:25 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2004-05-27 10:15 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-05-27 18:59 ` Christopher Nielsen
2004-05-27 13:43 ` ron minnich
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