An unusual Performance approach using Synthetic registers, and a request for guidance.

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 27, 2002, "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@goquest.com> wrote:

> So, I think (personal opinion here), using the %EBX register as the base 
> (frame pointer) of the synthetic register frames should be your first choice.

'cept %EBX is used as the PIC base register, and you can't really
remap that to a virtual register unless you change PLT entries.

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