Re: Denial of denial of service

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From: Tony Finch
Subject: Re: Denial of denial of service
Date: 20:03 on 29 Jan 2007

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Yossi Kreinin once stated:
> >
> > Can you name a platform where no extra instructions in the normal flow
> > path are generated when exceptions are enabled?
>
> VMS on the VAX architecture, and there, it's only one instruction
> overhead.

Er, so that's a "no" then.

Tony.
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Sean Conner 19:54 on 29 Jan 2007
- Tony Finch 20:03 on 29 Jan 2007
  - Sean Conner 20:34 on 29 Jan 2007
- David Cantrell 21:02 on 29 Jan 2007
  - Sean Conner 21:20 on 29 Jan 2007
  - Peter da Silva 03:52 on 30 Jan 2007
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