From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <60604076ef0cb4db30a25626acea77e0@quanstro.net> References: <60604076ef0cb4db30a25626acea77e0@quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <558533A8-4BF5-439F-A05E-DFE84CED7A29@telus.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:32:34 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] critique of sockets API Topicbox-Message-UUID: 09aff172-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFKMdpjpJeHo/Fbu1wRAsPTAKCmeg6YnYvCNBHpWQCd9hCAM5+Y/wCgw8// +MMUaZeL/qPutVO0W7sYTqM= =D+2E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----