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Re: Patch: no more %esi
- To: tromey at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Patch: no more %esi
- From: Kresten Krab Thorup <krab at daimi dot au dot dk>
- Date: 21 Jan 2000 11:11:44 +0100
- Cc: Java Patch List <java-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <87zou14vtz.fsf@cygnus.com>
Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> writes:
> I'm checking in the appended patch, which removes the use of %esi from
> the interpreter. This code causes problems with some versions of g++.
>
> Kresten, I assume this code is a performance hack? Does it make a
> measurable difference when this code is included? If it does, then we
> might want to enable it, but with a different register. If it
> doesn't, then there's no harm leaving it out. (Unfortunately I
> currently don't have time to do any profiling.)
Quite allright. I don't remember how much this improves performance.
-- Kresten
Kresten Krab Thorup "I like my eggs ploded"
Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus
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