In
<985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c232c1e0...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com>,
on 04/25/2014
at 10:59 AM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[email protected]>
said:
>Seems wasteful of CPU cycles to me,
How often do you expect to hit the guard page? An explicit test for
stack overflow costs you at every call, and that can add up to more
overhead than an infrequent program exception. I would hope that IBM
did some measurements bfore deciding on the guard-page strategy.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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