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Date:      Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:03:06 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, dcs@newsguy.com, dwilde1@thuntek.net, billf@chc-chimes.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Benchmarking web apps on Apache
Message-ID:  <199907170003.RAA18541@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpr9m8r0s7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Jul 16, 99 06:56:40 pm

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> Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> > Also, has anyone assessed the amount of assembly code changes
> > that would be necessary to use callee-pop (which GCC _does_
> > support)?
> 
> Callee-pop isn't practical for languages that support functions with
> variable numbers of parameters.

If the prototypes are required to be in scope, this is detectable.

In other words, it can work for carefully written code.  Microsoft
Visual C++ does this (and tail call optimization to JMP instead of
CALL + RET).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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