On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > Anyone got a good reference on the cycle cost of function
> > call overhead (compared by CPU family would be nice)? I try
> > to figure it out myself, but am afraid that gcc is out-thinking me.
>
> O.K. - I did a small test:
[...]
> 1000000000: 14.975934
> 2000000000: 8.860147
>
> That seems to say that a normal function call uses 6.115787*10^-9 seconds
When everything is in the caches, which is mostly the case but not the worst
case.
Nicholas
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