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To: fastpathguru who wrote (239540)	8/29/2007 2:42:53 PM
From: tecate78732	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Hey FPG!! where y'all been since the begining of the year? it's interesting that you are posting 2 weeks before Barco* release. fess up time! ;)

To: fastpathguru who wrote (239540)	8/29/2007 2:57:22 PM
From: graphicsguru	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

I'm not saying it's crazy -- Intel seems to be doing it. But I think you underestimate the complexity. Remember that processor state is extremely subtle, given that you're also doing out-of-order and superscalar and speculative execution after branch prediction. This sort of mechanism interacts with all of those. And I doubt that you can set things up to easily snapshot the whole processor state without a huge impact on critical paths. I think it impacts processor design pretty deeply. That said, if you can make it all work, it's probably the next big thing to do. After all, all the simple ways to speed things up have already been implemented.