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To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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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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