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."
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.
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.
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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.
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.
That's rather like the PPC instruction set!
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