Conditional call instruction

[Richard Henderson]

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~