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Date:      Fri, 29 Nov 1996 08:19:47 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: users of "ft" tapes, please test! 
Message-ID:  <1300.849251987@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:19:29 EST." <199611290519.AAA07832@dyson.iquest.net> 

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In message <199611290519.AAA07832@dyson.iquest.net>, "John S. Dyson" writes:
>If there is not a significant negative speed impact, I would be tempted to
>make the changes.  It would be very suprising to see that an appropriately
>coded splvm/splimp/splxxx would be much smaller than the subroutine call...
>Have you considered coding the splxxx inlines in tight asm?  Would that help?

probably not, since we would disable the compilers optimizer that way.


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