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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Code Optimization
Message-ID: <8802020302.AA27644@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 2 Feb 88 03:02:42 GMT
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>	The same thing is true of the Macintosh if you regard the trap
>mechanism as a "shared library" which it really is.  Most of the existing
>68020 upgrades for the SE replace the standard traps (which run on a 68000
>and even faster on an 020) with direct calls to the 881.  You lose a little
>to the extra trap overhead, but you do with shared libraries too.

	I suppose one could call the mac traps shared libraries.  The 
overhead of a trap, though, is too much for my tastes.  Of course *nothing*
beats inline code, not even an optimal Amiga library call (jsr offset(Ax)/rts)

				-Matt