Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:32:35 +0100

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>
> pushl %ebp
> movl $0xfffff000, %ebp
> call *%ebp
> popl %ebp
>
>

You could avoid clobbering a register with something like

pushl $0xfffff000
call *(%esp)
addl %esp,4

--
    Manfred


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