Re: [PATCH] Alternative patching for prefetches & cleanup

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:22:58 -0700 (PDT)

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.

Linus

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