> On 13 jun 2005, at 09:13, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > I was thinking about this before I relpied, and knew this was the > > case for > > P5-P6 core. However is this verified/documented for generation 7 > > CPU's ? > > (Athlon/Netburst ?) > > Why would they suddenly start spending silicon on making instructions > faster which no modern compiler generates anymore?
Because the decoder units are now more advanced, and (given the total transistor count) it is not that expensive, relatively. However I partially agree that I think it is not likely. However I went over this a lot of times, and nobody ever came up with a test or reference to back it up. That's unscientific. Maybe I should ask on nasm's forum or some other handcoders place. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
