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RE: Draft assembly PDD

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From:
Sam Tregar
Date:
August 6, 2001 16:25
Subject:
RE: Draft assembly PDD
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.33.0108061919340.9334-100000@localhost.localdomain
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Hong Zhang wrote:

> It is not just for performance, the stack size and cache
> locationality are also big issues.

Cache sizes and timings vary from machine to machine.  Maybe we should
make it configurable at compile-time?  If we do that then there's no
reason to try to guess at the right number now - we can test later and get
an answer we can trust.

[ insert routine comment about premature optimzation causing the death of
  the dinasours here ]

-sam


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