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On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:16:50AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> ... so, as the PACA gets deprecated, the bloat will go away again.

We can also lose one instruction per tls access, if I can manage to
teach gcc a trick or two.

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Alan Modra
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