Re: Optimization Opportunities 1 [long]

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 03:42:08PM +0100, Mike Nordell wrote:
> Yes, but this does not necessarily involves doing this manually.
> 
> Since I've also been here before, I'd like to add that *if* you have a
> reasonable profiler, you might want to add a call to abort() (or even
> _asm{ int 3; } using x86) just after the main window has been displayed and
> _everything_ has been drawn. To find out where this is might need some
> tracing, but the benefits are obvious.

  xor     eax,eax
  inc     eax           ; syscall #1
  xor     ebx,ebx       ; argument: 0 (exit code)
  int     0x80          ; call kernel

is the Right way on i386 Linux.