At 11:10 AM 8/7/2001 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 21:55:07 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> >>But I do not agree that calculated jumps should be done in such a hard
> >>way.
> >
> >Nothing hard about it, really.
>
>I was referring to Hong Zhang's proposal, not yours.
Ah, OK. I tend to get confused. :)
Hong's proposal is dead-on for hardware, for that I have no doubt at all.
Luckily (I think) we're not quite at that level, so we can layer on some
useful abstractions and cut out a few opcode dispatches.
Dan
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