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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Subject: Re: To Recurse or NOT to recurse?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.210952.6035@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
- References: <1992Nov6.185136.8055@netcom.com> <8NN1TB2w165w@rhps.chi.il.us>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 21:09:52 GMT
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- In article <8NN1TB2w165w@rhps.chi.il.us>, burch@rhps.chi.il.us (Lee Burch) writes:
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- > the overhead of making a subroutine call is actually quite high under
- > C,
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- This is not true, when stated this baldly. On some machines, it is
- true. On other machines, it is not. On still others, it depends on
- the function being called. There are probably machines on which it
- depends on other things (eg, the compiler in use).
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- der Mouse
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