Re: Crusoe's persistent translation on linux?

[Jeff Garzik]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:49:22AM -0500, Eli Carter wrote:
> Hmm... basically you want to trim the x86 instruction set to get closer 
> to RISC mentality.  Interesting.  gcc may already do that to some extent 
> by not using the really complex instructions.  If that is the case, 
> dropping those instructions might give some room for testing some of its 
> possible benefits.  I doubt restricting the registers used by some 
> instructions would help... I've heard comments that the x86 is 
> register-starved enough already.

Newer CPUs do register renaming in an attempt to avoid the
register-starved ISA issue.  I presume Xmeta would do something
similar...

	Jeff