Nice jab at Emacs ;)
Posted Apr 24, 2003 22:09 UTC (Thu) by
jzbiciak (
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Nice jab at Emacs ;) by james
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Opteron launches
You will trade instruction footprint for data footprint. Primarily, pointers will increase in size, but little else. In the end, it'll be close to a wash performance wise for most applications that aren't register starved (eg. cat), and a boost for anything with code that could use more registers.
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