Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!vsnyder
From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: FORTRAN and (un)SAVEd vars
Keywords: FORTRAN 77, SAVE
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.015639.26913@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Mar 91 01:56:39 GMT
References: <8@interet.UUCP> <1991Feb28.004447.3728@nas.nasa.gov> <4849@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <1991Feb28.164256.23516@nas.nasa.gov> <1991Mar5.194219@fman.enet.dec.com>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Lines: 11

In article <1991Mar5.194219@fman.enet.dec.com> peterson@fman.enet.dec.com (Bob Peterson) writes:
>Even if the compiler doesn't do the flow analysis completely, shouldn't
>it be a safe bet that SAVEd variables operate as fast or faster than
>unsaved variables?... 
On anything 80x86, stack references are faster than other kinds.

Van.
-- 
vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder
vsnyder@jato.uucp