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