guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (03/17/91)
>Actually, the Tahoe (designed in 1982, BTW) has two call-subroutine >instructions: CALLS (call slow) which works more or less like the VAX's, >and CALLF (call fast), which is probably what is measured here. ... > >All this makes CALLF a very useful tool indeed: while on the whole, the >Tahoe is about 8-10 times as fast as a VAX780, subroutine call is 22 times >faster! As I remember, even CALLS was faster than the VAX's CALLS instruction.