From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] critique of sockets API
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:32:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558533A8-4BF5-439F-A05E-DFE84CED7A29@telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60604076ef0cb4db30a25626acea77e0@quanstro.net>
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Even more than transistors are so cheap that doing on-the-fly
translation to a RISC instruction set in hardware is an essentially
invisible cost. Plus you get to change the target microarchitecture
to exploit new thinking in processor design without breaking existing
software.
That last reason, not choice, is how IA became dominant.
Paul
On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:41 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> could it be that since transistors are very cheep, adding
> instructions is
> simply the cheapest go-faster trick?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-12 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <b0a72b5826eb44300d3603f585859910@quanstro.net>
2009-06-11 14:54 ` Eris Discordia
2009-06-11 18:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-11 21:21 ` Eris Discordia
2009-06-11 23:41 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-12 4:32 ` Paul Lalonde [this message]
2009-06-12 7:19 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <D9FE8C51EE2D568C05E555DD@192.168.1.2>
2009-06-11 23:34 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-06-12 7:21 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] <mailman.1.1244808001.26495.9fans@9fans.net>
2009-06-13 1:39 ` Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
2009-06-11 12:16 erik quanstrom
[not found] <mailman.1.1244635201.19660.9fans@9fans.net>
2009-06-10 23:46 ` Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
[not found] <mailman.1007.1244590421.1513.9fans@9fans.net>
2009-06-10 22:50 ` Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
2009-06-11 12:34 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] <mailman.998.1244574121.1513.9fans@9fans.net>
2009-06-09 23:20 ` Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
2009-06-09 23:24 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-06-09 23:33 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-06-10 3:33 ` Gary Wright
2009-06-10 0:07 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-10 0:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-11 7:07 ` Eris Discordia
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2009-06-09 18:49 Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
2009-06-09 18:59 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-09 22:11 ` Russ Cox
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