From: nikki AT gameboutique DOT co (nikki)
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Subject: Re: pentium
Date: 18 Feb 1997 14:41:51 GMT
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> Why not include an option to build a program into a "super-executable"
> with three copies of the code in it, and at the start a routine to
> autodetect whether you have <586, 586, or 686 and branch to the right
> code, which is properly optimised for that chip?
> (Of course exe's would be up to three times as big, except for the 200k
> startup-code and stub.)

erk no.
much better, use self-modifying code to do the same, wouldn't have to be
3x as big then either.

regards,
nik


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Graham Tootell           
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