On 9/9/2011 9:57, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Well, yes, I was referring to the only architecture in existence that people
> are likely to be writing desktop applications for. :-P

I think even amongst Intel and AMD x64 and x86 architectures, this varies. 
I'm pretty sure it's not 100% automatic or there wouldn't be instructions 
for causing it to happen.

> I saw a paper a while back about how Google (I forget which center)
> translated part of the monitoring system from Python to Haskell, and
> documented what they did and didn't find beneficial about this.

Ah. Well, there's monitoring out the wazoo here, so I'm quite certain they 
didn't rewrite even a majority of it.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?

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