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Re: Conditional call instruction

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
Cc: dje at watson dot ibm dot com, dalej at apple dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:51:38 -0800
Subject: Re: Conditional call instruction
References: <200202132256.RAA23166@makai.watson.ibm.com> <200202132302.g1DN2cd17544@desire.geoffk.org>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 03:02:38PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
> I'm not sure about conditional indirect calls.  If they started to be
> used for direct calls, they might turn out to be slower than a call
> with a branch around it, because of lack of prefetching.

In particular it might be helpful for calls to abort, for
which you couldn't care less about prefetching.


r~

References:
- Re: Conditional call instruction
  - From: David Edelsohn
- Re: Conditional call instruction
  - From: Geoff Keating

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