On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:47:29PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > If accessing the top of your stack is "using system memory" you're > screwed already. It ought to be in L1 cache. It will normally be in L1, but you've still got penalties compared to register access because of things like %esp interlocks as well as being longer and using more cache -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list