Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I now officially need new spectacles. I read -march=amdfam10 and my > eyeballs told my brain it was "arm" > <sigh> As an old fart, to a fledgling old-fart; its because ARM is taking over the world, that your brain performed this superposition transformation. Your glasses are most likely fine. You subconcience is smarter than your waking (carnal?) consience. Trust the force, luke...... > Please ignore this entire sub-thread The fact of the matter is this. If I knew back then, what I know now, I would not even fart around with x86* architectures on keen issues of minimization. There is so much going on with ARM. Minimization is about low power. The paradigm shift to low power (the lowest heat) allows for for the greatest transistor concentration ==> smallest size. ARM has beaten them all, AMD sees the light and is working on a myriad of hybrid SOCs, design specifically for tight target implementations. Samsung is killing the world, with ARM and open source linux. Still, to get a taste for minimization, there is nothing like old (Gentoo) i586 and i486 sources and the 2.series of kernels to see just how small you can get (sub 1 Mbyte.....?). I've heard of kernels around 100Kb, in the old days. These kernels FLY! but may not do all you eventually need.... TLS and such make it an infinite soup of trial and testing. hth, James
