Re: [PATCH] Alternative patching for prefetches & cleanup

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Hmm. I thought using the Fibonaci sequence for this was clever :-)

On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 08:22:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Such things may be checked with:

http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/index.html

-- wli