procedure call costs

Stephen Weeks sweeks@research.nj.nec.com
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:41:12 -0500


As another data point, here are the times for 5000 repetitions of
tak(18, 12, 6).

smlc chunk-per-cont	43.29
smlc one-chunk		34.7
smlc hand patch		25.07
NJ			32.34
C			14.13

"smlc hand patch" is the result of taking the C code from smlc
one-chunk and modifying it so that returns do not use the trampoline.