Posted by
CowboyNeal
on from the more-power-now dept.
NickSD writes "ChipGeek has an interesting article on increasing x86
CPU performance without having to redesign or throw out the x86 instruction set. Check it out at
geek.com."
That's pretty sweet how he makes the x86 processor faster by adding commands for divx! This guy knows how to improve Intel architecture for the masses!
Other new commands: LIE Launch IE LMW Launch MS Word LME Launch MS Excel LMO Launch MS Outlook LMOV Launch MS Outlook Virus LCNR Launch Clippy for No Reason DPRN Display Pr0n SPOP Show IE Popup SPU Spam User SHDR Send Hard Drive Contents to Redmond RBT Reboot SBS Show Blue Screen
-- Lately democracy seems to be based on the skybox, the Happy Meal box, the X-box, and the idiot box.
Real people used stuff like jmp $fce2 for the first, but the latter was a little bit more complex because of the blue part: lda #$06 ; sta $d020 ; sta $d021 ; hlt (of course, hlt is an undocumented opcode, and since C64 boots in less than a second from ROM, it hardly is as frustrating as the bluescreen in Windows).
LPS - Launch Photoshop DGB - Do Gaussian Blur ES - Encode Sorenson DS - Decode Sorenson CSAWEF - Create Switch Ad With Ellen Feiss
And my personal favorite:
BICPUWPBIGBASE - Beat Intel CPU With Proprietary Benchmark Involving Gaussian Blurs And Sorenson Encoding
Mmmm, Assembler...
by
guidemaker
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· Score: 5, Funny
I'm reminded of the days I used to code for the old Acorn Archimedes (don't look for it now, it's not there any more) and our apps were usually way faster than the competition's.
When asked why, we were tempted to tell them that we used the undocumented 'unleash' instruction to unleash the raw power of the ARM processor.
Re:Sounds like an interesting idea...
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Funny
This is a classic Slashdot comment.
"Hey I'm currently in my 2nd year at college, but what the heck I think I'm qualified to commment here"
"I think Intel need to employ this guy, I mean they must have overlooked this"
"Cool - I wonder if I could think of something like this"
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That's pretty sweet how he makes the x86 processor faster by adding commands for divx! This guy knows how to improve Intel architecture for the masses!
I'm reminded of the days I used to code for the old Acorn Archimedes (don't look for it now, it's not there any more) and our apps were usually way faster than the competition's.
When asked why, we were tempted to tell them that we used the undocumented 'unleash' instruction to unleash the raw power of the ARM processor.
This is a classic Slashdot comment.
"Hey I'm currently in my 2nd year at college, but what the heck I think I'm qualified to commment here"
"I think Intel need to employ this guy, I mean they must have overlooked this"
"Cool - I wonder if I could think of something like this"
Don't worry - you will.
I want to form a company that makes a cpu that translates x86 instructions on the fly to RISC instructions that operate in parallel.
I'll call my company transmeta!
Or in the words of that new dell commercial
"Sure we'll call it 1-800 they already do that!".
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.