Re: faster strcpy()
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Apr 1998 17:07:47 GMT
Followup to: <19980426184454.43493@twilight.ucw.cz>
By author: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech-lists@twilight.ucw.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The term "RISC-like internal design" makes sense. I'm not completely
> sure about how the Pentium looks inside, but for example the NexGen
> 586, (and this applies to K6, too, but not to Cyrixes) was
> completely RISC inside - breaking up the x86 instructions into RISC
> code and then executing the RISC instructions. It could be even
> switched to RISC-only mode that'd fetch the RISC instructions from
> memory directly without the x86->RISC translation.
>
> If the Pentium follows a similar design, which it supposedly does, then I
> think it can be called a "RISC-like internal design".
>
If anything, it's the opposite. One of the salient points of RISC is
to avoid exactly this kind of translation engines.
-hpa
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