Register functions ?
tim at callan.UUCP
tim at callan.UUCP
Thu Sep 6 07:05:34 AEST 1984
To all of us who used to use PDP-10s, it is clear that
register foo() {
should mean that foo is a small function that should move itself
into the registers for speed! ( on the 10, the registers were
mapped into the lower 16 words of your address space. Thus,
it was both reasonable to take the address of a register variable,
and it was reasonable to put code in the registers, because it
would run faster there.)
--
Tim Smith
ihnp4!wlbr!callan!tim or ihnp4!cithep!tim
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