[patch 2/8] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code

2007-09-06 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Immediate values are used as read mostly variables that are rarely updated. They use code patching to modify the values inscribed in the instruction stream. It provides a way to save precious cache lines that would otherwise have to be used by these variables. There is a generic _immediate_read()

[patch 2/8] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code

2007-08-27 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Immediate values are used as read mostly variables that are rarely updated. They use code patching to modify the values inscribed in the instruction stream. It provides a way to save precious cache lines that would otherwise have to be used by these variables. There is a generic _immediate_read()

[patch 2/8] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code

2007-08-20 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Immediate values are used as read mostly variables that are rarely updated. They use code patching to modify the values inscribed in the instruction stream. It provides a way to save precious cache lines that would otherwise have to be used by these variables. There is a generic _immediate_read()

Re: [patch 2/8] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code

2007-08-16 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Alexey Dobriyan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:07:04AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > Immediate values are used as read mostly variables that are rarely updated. > > They > > use code patching to modify the values inscribed in the instruction stream. > > It > > pro

Re: [patch 2/8] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code

2007-08-13 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:07:04AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Immediate values are used as read mostly variables that are rarely updated. > They > use code patching to modify the values inscribed in the instruction stream. It > provides a way to save precious cache lines that would otherwis

[patch 2/8] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code

2007-08-12 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Immediate values are used as read mostly variables that are rarely updated. They use code patching to modify the values inscribed in the instruction stream. It provides a way to save precious cache lines that would otherwise have to be used by these variables. There is a generic _immediate_read()