Re: [patch 7/8] Immediate Values - Documentation

2007-09-21 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Friday 21 September 2007 14:31, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > Immediates make code bigger, right? > > Nope. > > Example: > > char x; > > void testb(void) > { > if (x > 5) > testa(); > } > > Would turn into: > 56: b0 00 mov$0x0,%al > 58: 3

Re: [patch 7/8] Immediate Values - Documentation

2007-09-21 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Denys Vlasenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2007 16:59, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > +We can therefore affirm that adding 2 markers to getppid, on a system with > > high > > +memory pressure, would have a performance hit of at least 6.0% on the > > system > > +call time, all

Re: [patch 7/8] Immediate Values - Documentation

2007-09-20 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Monday 27 August 2007 16:59, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > +We can therefore affirm that adding 2 markers to getppid, on a system with > high > +memory pressure, would have a performance hit of at least 6.0% on the system > +call time, all within the uncertainty limits of these tests. The same >