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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 1999 07:34:47 -0600
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new IPFW
Message-ID:  <19991124073447.18248@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911240245250.11412-100000@current1.whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Nov 11, 1999 at 02:49:48AM -0800
References:  <199911241026.CAA45230@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911240245250.11412-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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On Nov 11, 1999 at 02:49:48AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Unfortunatly it uses an in-kernel incremental machine instruction 
> generator so it wouldn't be very portable, however it is apparently
> blazingly fast.

Yes, I hope to be eable to incorporate the vcode generator if I ever
have time.  One thing you have to watch for is running the generator
too often that you thrash the icache.

The backend emits code for the alpha and i386 right now, IIRC, so that
should cover our current platforms.
--
Jonathan




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