Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: EPIC | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:02:11 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> per single clock cycle. EPIC in itself does not give you > anything special, likely it will cause more constraints to > the COMPILER, e.g. results of some calculation must be used > only after given delay of so and so many instructions so that > they arrive thru the computing pipeline back into registers.
Nope. Read the publically available user space documentation on this
> There is an effort of porting Linux to Merced underway, but > to learn any salient details of it, you have to sign NDA. > (Until the Merced is published.)
A kernel boot to running userpsace was demoed at Linux Expo by HP
> Processor instruction set encoding style is not a technique > in kernel sense.
Indeed. I suspect it only matters for memcpy/ the copy-checksum code and all the other hand coded hotpaths, the rest is the compilers problem
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