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Re: [patch] Rewrite building of virtual operands


On Mar 7, 2006, at 11:13 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Another problem is that you need to "calibrate" it in the beginning

We never did, but this was mainly due to the fact we were doing relative analysis, not absolute. Ours was off by some 25% on some machines due to frequency differences on the frontside bus. We had an OS routine to tell us the scaling, but we just didn't bother.



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