On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:27:03PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: > > Sometimes putting these eight (or nine for ashrdi3) instructions > > inline would be a performance win. > > Sometimes, maybe. I suspect you'll find that in general it's > nothing but bloat. With a bit of hand waiving because haven't done benchmarks I guess Richard might be right. The subroutine calling overhead on modern processors is rather low and smaller code means better cache hit rates ... Ralf
