Re: Using %cr2 to reference "current"

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:17:33 +0000 (GMT)


> somehow encouraged by the compiler comparisions between gcc and intel's
> free compiler, which use the register passing for anything local
> to the actual code, where the speed gains are up to 20% im currently

I was under the impression intels compiler was profoundly non-free ?

> quite inclined to do the redo and finish the experiment.
> BTW.> It's not just asm fixpus that have to be done for this
> to work. For example all the c files with -fno-omit-frame-pointer

20% is a nice large number

Alan
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