ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) (07/23/85)
> His program spent much of its time calling several fairly large procedures > isolated in a module. These were called thousands of times and usually > simply returned after making one simple comparison, but occasionally they > did something complex. This happened seldom enough so it mattered little > whether they used register variables. The DEC-compiled version apparently > spent an awful lot of time just saving and restoring unchanged registers. If only the copy-on-write register instructions had worked on early 750's. :-) -- UUCP: ..decvax!seismo!elsie!ado ARPA: elsie!ado@seismo.ARPA DEC, VAX and Elsie are Digital Equipment and Borden trademarks