From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190603172236h375c5bd2u68d9e13e0078a7b0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:36:17 +1100 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <775b8d190603172212g47d7e069yd59417a1c293945e@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 16efe60c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 indeed .. the newer x86 are optimized to essentially use the cache as register windows and call/ret to be fast. rms and his clan don't read the books. brucee On 3/18/06, Tim Wiess wrote: > > their major mistake, apart from not thinking before coding, is that > > all of those stupid inlines blow your cache and ken is clever. > > this is very true. i'm always amazed to see how often that > keyword is abused these days.