On 02/16/2012 07:27 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: > > A JIT won't be able to merge accesses because it also has to merge other > instructions and recognize when 64-bit operations are done with 32-bit > instructions. I think that will be too hard for a JIT. > Please Google "peephole optimizer". -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html