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Lu wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:04 AM Jan Beulich wrote: >> may I ask what the status / purpose of these is? They were added years >> ago, but actually useful functionality has never appeared. Since I've >> noticed a couple of issues with the involved gas code, I'm now >> wondering: Should I try to make fixes, or can the logic rather be >> purged altogether? Even if the overhead isn't high, the presence of >> support for these not really usable sub-architectures is causing some >> extra cycles to be wasted on each and every gas invocation. > > We can deprecate L1OM and K1OM. And "deprecate" == "delete" or something less heavy? > But we should keep IAMCU. IOW there's stuff to come to actually fill this? Jan