Re: Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c))

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:36:06PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Lehey writes:
> >In which processors is a function call anywhere near as cheap as a
> >conditional local branch?
> 
> Doesn't PPC have some cases where a leaf function is basically free?

Maybe, but free() is not a leaf function.

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