Pete Lomax writes: > There's no file level locals yet either ;-) > > Can I ask a stupid question? Guess I'm going to anyway... > > Is there much benefit to .const, over sticking a value in a register > and not modifying it? (which is what I've done to get round this)
Yes. First, if you want more than 8 constants of some type, this isn't the way to go, as you'll starve your registers, and things will get quite a bit slower. And in general, registers are for things that change. The constant table is for constants. > How much benefit for a heavily used 0/1 flag? If it never changes? None. It'll load it up from the constant table just as fast as it'll load it up from a register. This may be different in the presence of JIT and caching, two things which I know nothing about. But in the general case, no benefit at all. > What about a lightly used string? Same deal. Except here I'm pretty sure there's no JIT benefit. Luke
