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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: passing variable numbers of arguments
Message-ID: <832@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 19:05:19 GMT
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 >It doesn't slow the call down, since it's always there.  However, it could
 >be argued that the call could have been made faster by not wasting microcode
 >space...

Or by not wasting memory and CPU cycles fetching the count from the
instruction stream and stuffing it onto the stack.