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From: yuval@taux02.UUCP (Gideon Yuval)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: register save/restore
Message-ID: <228@taux02.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 17:30:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: taux02.228
References: <3300037@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1988Oct30.013510.16861@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: yuval@taux02.UUCP (Gideon Yuval)
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel
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In article <1988Oct30.013510.16861@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>......................................  On the VAX, the wonderful all-
>singing all-dancing standard calling sequence provided by the hardware
>encouraged callee-saves.  Not everyone has bothered to rethink the issues
>when changing processors.

The VAX all-singing CALLS/CALLG was also VERY  slow;  but  the  only  way  to
find  this  out was to time it by (e.g.) the Unix "time" command -- DEC never
published any Vax timing-notes (that I know of).
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