From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:50:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <546ad2649cbc93791073f5b40499e60e@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <283f5df10710080620x5a5ec548pa530b38df41833ab@mail.gmail.com>
> His original Kernel, L3, was written in pure assembly for x86, using every
> trick possible.
>
there's nothing wrong with assembly per ce, but i don't follow this logic.
generally speaking, compilers are better than humans at doing instruction
scrabble. and worse, optimal instructions are a function of (at least) the
cpu model, northbridge and memory, as slightly different memory latency
or bandwidth could alter the tradeoff between cycles and code size.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-08 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-06 13:25 [9fans] " Andrew Wingorodov
2007-10-06 16:07 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-10-06 16:08 ` johnny
2007-10-06 16:26 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-06 20:24 ` [9fans] " Andrew Wingorodov
2007-10-06 20:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-07 16:18 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-07 16:30 ` ron minnich
2007-10-07 18:05 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-07 20:28 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-07 20:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-08 13:20 ` LiteStar numnums
2007-10-08 13:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-08 14:50 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-10-08 15:58 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-08 16:01 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-08 17:16 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-08 19:14 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-08 19:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-08 20:18 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-10 18:26 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-10 20:42 ` ron minnich
2007-10-10 21:38 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-08 17:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-08 18:39 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-08 19:11 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-08 18:34 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-07 16:31 ` LiteStar numnums
2007-10-07 18:36 ` Andrew Wingorodov
2007-10-07 18:54 ` LiteStar numnums
2007-10-07 20:20 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-13 7:08 ` Andrew Wingorodov
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