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From: glenm@mako.UUCP (Glen McCluskey)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: CALL instruction and C
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Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 19:57:26 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 20 19:57:26 1985
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On page 20 of the January 1985 CACM, there is mention of replacing
the VAX CALL instruction, used by C for function entry (though in
this case used for a Modula-2 compiler), with a simpler sequence
of instructions "that do only what is necessary".  This resulted
in a performance improvement of 20%.

Does anyone know if this has been tried for C, and the practicality
of modifying the compiler to do such?

				Glen McCluskey
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