From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40B5C209.8070604@chunder.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:25:13 +1000 From: Bruce Ellis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: alef on sources References: <6fb938881e4dbc4ed1fe30fd429187a9@vitanuova.com> In-Reply-To: <6fb938881e4dbc4ed1fe30fd429187a9@vitanuova.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8b2c14e0-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.