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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 05:27:13 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alternative patching for prefetches & cleanup
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 05:22:58AM +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm. I thought using the Fibonaci sequence for this was clever :-)
> 
> That's not the fibonacci sequence, that's just a regular sigma(i)  
> (i=1..n) sequence. And if you were to generate the sequence numbers at
> compile-time I might agree with you, if you also were to avoid using 
> inline asms.

True %)

The real reason I did it was to avoid having two sets of macros - one
with .byte 0x... and another with string "\x..\x..."

Now it needs duplication.

-Andi