From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263337AbTD0DT7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 23:19:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263343AbTD0DT7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 23:19:59 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:41148 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263337AbTD0DT6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 23:19:58 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:32:06 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alternative patching for prefetches & cleanup Message-ID: <20030427033206.GX8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030427051451.43064@colin.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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