Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> * Would it be possible at all to start generally using register
> parameter passing convention in Linux?
>
> Definitely it would be possible.
>
> Does anyone know how much this would actually give speedup on x86?
> I don't think very much, because accessing cached stack is as fast
> as registers, unless doing arithmetic there (with Pentium, that is).
>
> It would be possible, but would it be worth the trouble?
> It bothers me as I can use easily register passing with Watcom
> but not in Linux ... =)
Given the general lack of registers on the x86 architecture, I suspect
that you would just end up pushing the same amount of data onto the
stack anyhow.
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