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- Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> writes:
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- >In addition, Executor has to be aware of self-modifying code. After
- >all, if it memorizes that a particular set of m68k instructions map
- >into a set of x86 instructions, if the original m68k instructions are
- >changed then Executor needs to throw away the mapped instructions and
- >do another recompile. I don't know how MACCHESS 2.0 works, but if it
- >dynamically builds board evaluators and then jumps into them, then
- >Executor's performance will suffer for that.
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- Why do you support instruction modification? The 040 and PPC Macs won't
- always run programs which use instruction modification due to their
- caches.
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- Brian Quinlan "Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac
- quinlan@sfu.ca user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?" - Tom Clancy
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