Greetings! Still looking into this, but it does appear that the example I sent had some gcc code elimination. If so, this still leaves the issue of mutual recursion -- how important is this? what if function calls are somewhat slowed to attain it -- how much would be worth it if any?
Take care, Robert Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I seem to recall a conversation years ago in which Schelter said that for > gcc, the difference in time between (1) a function call of a pointer to a > function and (2) a function call of a function was nothing more than one > instruction, the time it takes to fetch that to which the pointer pointed. > Of course, my memory could be wrong, etc., etc. But this seems still > plausible to me. So I'd be most happy to be re-educated. > > Bob > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
