On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 22:17 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > Suffice to say that a pipeline that is 20+ stages long when well fed can > do a lot of computation. Think of registers as cheeks on a squirrel. Fill > the cheeks up and off the little guy goes to eat them or hide them away. > If only one cheek was allowed in 32bit mode and both cheeks in 64bit mode > 64bit modes can move more data. Then there are teeth and stomachs to do > the processing...... on modern processors there is a 'nest' full of hungry > mouths to feed all in parallel. Good Lord, I would not want to meet one of these notional squirrels in a dark alley. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
