Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: mpx (mpx.delete@this.nomail.pl), December 21, 2011 2:57 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) on 12/20/11 wrote:
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>16-bit offsets aren't enough. 20-24 bit offsets often are,
>although it can cause nasty problems when you end up linking
This does not justify x86 variable lenght encoding. It could be used to argue for 2^n multiples encoding (eg. 32-bit &64-bit per instruction).
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>16-bit offsets aren't enough. 20-24 bit offsets often are,
>although it can cause nasty problems when you end up linking
This does not justify x86 variable lenght encoding. It could be used to argue for 2^n multiples encoding (eg. 32-bit &64-bit per instruction).