From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alternative patching for prefetches & cleanup
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:32:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030427033206.GX8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304262021190.25498-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Hmm. I thought using the Fibonaci sequence for this was clever :-)
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 08:22:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That's not the fibonacci sequence, that's just a regular sigma(i)
> (i=1..n) sequence. And if you were to generate the sequence numbers at
> compile-time I might agree with you, if you also were to avoid using
> inline asms.
Such things may be checked with:
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/index.html
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-27 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-27 2:19 [PATCH] Alternative patching for prefetches & cleanup Andi Kleen
2003-04-27 3:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-27 3:14 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-27 3:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-27 3:27 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-27 3:32 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-04-27 8:50 ` Rene Herman
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