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
