On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:00:37AM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
Peter Jeremy <peter(a)rulingia.com> wrote:
In the specific case of x86, I would dispute
that. The various warts in
the x86 instruction set and "architecture" mean that x86 code density is
relatively low and on a par with SPARC code.
This paper has a nice survey of instruction set densities, which very much
disagrees with your statement:
http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/papers/iccd09/iccd09_density.pdf
That's a neat paper, I like it, thanks for the pointer. I'm curious
why Peter thought what he thought, my guess would have been more like
what the paper showed, but that was a "hand optimized assembly", maybe
the compilers aren't that good? I dunno, Peter, care to comment?