Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

Jeff V. Merkey
2000-10-31T23:20:25Z

"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>

Dick,

In NetWare this:

>
> One could create a 'kernel' that does:
> for(;;)
> {
> proc0();
> proc1();
> proc2();
> proc3();
> etc();
> }

would be coded like this (no C compiler):

proc0:

proc1:

proc2:

proc3:

etc:

label:
jmp proc0

I just avoided 5 x 20 bytes of pushes and pops on the stack ad optimized
for a simple fall through case.

:-)

Jeff

>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
>
> Penguin : Linux version 2.2.17 on an i686 machine (801.18 BogoMips).
>
> "Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of
> course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation
> obtained from the Micro$oft help desk.