Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Register usage [was Re: 80486 vs. 68040 code size]
Message-ID: <1989May13.223240.25947@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <921@aber-cs.UUCP> <1989May11.210653.2125@utzoo.uucp> <25602@amdcad.AMD.COM> <436@unicads.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13 May 89 22:32:40 GMT

In article <436@unicads.UUCP> les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) writes:
>relatedly i had to admire sun installing compiler tricks to turn tail-
>recursive C into iterative C.  

Optimizing tail recursion into iteration is a win no matter what the
architecture is.  Admittedly the register-window faction has greater
incentive, but it's not a "compiler trick" (unless it's implemented
in some bizarre way).
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