> >I am intrigued too. There are vm enhancements in .36 so some paging patterns >have no doubt improved but I assure you it doesnt sneak new improved FPU >hardware into the pc > I think the paging stuff could have a big effect on some numeric codes. I've been working on optimizing code for the Origin2000 -- it has hardware performance counters and you can see things like the amount of time spent in TLB misses. You can run jobs and use different page sizes for data, text and stack and look at the results and there is usually an optimum set of values (I've seen 20% variations in performance on some stuff that was memory intensive). Regards Emil
