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Still waiting for swap prefetch

Still waiting for swap prefetch

Posted Jul 26, 2007 9:46 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Still waiting for swap prefetch by briangmaddox
Parent article: Still waiting for swap prefetch

The thing to do is to generate the assembler and then munge it with a horrible perl script.

(Hey, ghc does it, it must be good! :) )


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Still waiting for swap prefetch

Posted Jul 26, 2007 12:04 UTC (Thu) by dcoutts (guest, #5387) [Link]

Shh! You're not supposed to tell people about that, it's called the Evil Mangler for a good reason.

Still waiting for swap prefetch

Posted Jul 26, 2007 13:51 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Having just watched it use fifteen minutes of CPU time (on the ghc lexer, natch) I think it needs bringing into the light so it can be optimized by some hardier soul than I :)

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