Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:32:48 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)) Message-ID: <20001219213247.A74830@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <200012200036.SAA04774@guild.plethora.net>; from seebs@plethora.net on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:36:06PM -0600 References: <20001220110348.P43017@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200012200036.SAA04774@guild.plethora.net>
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:36:06PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote: > In message <20001220110348.P43017@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: > >In which processors is a function call anywhere near as cheap as a > >conditional local branch? > > Doesn't PPC have some cases where a leaf function is basically free? Maybe, but free() is not a leaf function. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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