Re: [9fans] Itanium

2009-01-12 Thread Christopher
On Jan 8, 9:02 am, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote: On Thu Jan  8 05:11:37 EST 2009, nadiasver...@gmail.com wrote: Here's my standard true Itanic story. I know a guy who wrote the sin() intrinsic. His comment: I do not intend to write cos(). I am working on a python ctypes

Re: [9fans] Itanium

2009-01-12 Thread erik quanstrom
[...] Many architectures get register windows wrong, but the Itanium has a variable-length register fill/ spill engine that gets invoked automatically. Of course, you can program the engine too. what's the advantage of this over the stanford style? I also REALLY like predicated

Re: [9fans] Itanium

2009-01-12 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:36:37 EST erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: how do you get around the fact that the parallelism is limited by the instruction set and the fact that one slow sub-instruction could stall the whole instruction? The hardware also has built-in support for

[9fans] Quick question on fossil

2009-01-12 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
Hi! I'm trying to read up on fossil implementation so that I can sustain an intelligent conversation with Andrey ;-) Now, the paper Fossil, an Archival File Server is pretty good, but here's one simple question that I can't find an answer to: there's a pointer to the root of the filesystem block

Re: [9fans] Quick question on fossil

2009-01-12 Thread Russ Cox
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Roman V. Shaposhnik r...@sun.com wrote: I'm trying to read up on fossil implementation so that I can sustain an intelligent conversation with Andrey ;-) Now, the paper Fossil, an Archival File Server is pretty good, but here's one simple question that I

[9fans] acme dump/reload vs. Wiki

2009-01-12 Thread Dave Eckhardt
I'd like to start up an acme with a bunch of wiki windows open according to a saved configuration, but there appear to be structural obstacles. 1. Dump appears not to record wiki windows. 2. While Dump *will* record a window in which win Wiki has been invoked, something is odd about