From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:39:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:39:03 -0400 Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com ([207.69.200.110]:56328 "EHLO smtp6.mindspring.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:38:54 -0400 Subject: Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps From: Robert Love To: android Cc: Jonathan Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010606152347.028e21d0@ansa.hostings.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010606143453.028ed400@ansa.hostings.com> <9fm4t7$412$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <3B1D5ADE.7FA50CD0@illusionary.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010606152347.028e21d0@ansa.hostings.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.10 (Preview Release) Date: 06 Jun 2001 18:38:44 -0400 Message-Id: <991867131.807.4.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06 Jun 2001 15:27:57 -0700, android wrote: > >I sincerely hope you're joking. > > I realize that assembly is platform-specific. Being that I use the IA32 class > machine, that's what I would write for. Others who use other platforms could > do the deed for their native language. no, look at the code. it is not going to benefit from assembly (assuming you can even implement it cleanly in assembly). its basically an iteration of other function calls. doing a new implementation in assembly for each platform is not feasible, anyhow. this is the sort of thing that needs to be uniform. this really has nothing to do with the "iron" of the computer -- its a loop to check and free swap pages. assembly will not provide benefit. -- Robert M. Love rml@ufl.edu rml@tech9.net