On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:32:42 -0800
Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

| <half-serious>
| We always assume that machine code can't be lossily compressed.  But I
| wonder...  I'm sure there are thousands of basic blocks in the Mozilla
| executable that I've never used, and I'm sure there are thousands of
| identical or nearly identical basic blocks.  How to find the
| unimportant ones, and how to compress them down?
| </half-serious>

I bet if you could see what transmeta's code morphing was doing
internally, it would be really obvious as to *which* bits of code
weren't being run -- they wouldn't be cached, or even 'morphed'...
IIRC that is proprietary tech, though  = )

ciao,

  Ben

PS - you're pretty good with a debugger, from what I understand  (^;
_______________________________________________
EuG-LUG mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Reply via email to