From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!richards Newsgroups: net.micro.432 Title: Info request - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.230 Posted: Wed Jul 7 16:27:00 1982 Received: Thu Jul 8 01:53:55 1982 #N:uiucdcs:21700006:000:397 uiucdcs!richards Jul 7 15:47:00 1982 -- Date: 30 Jun 82 14:30:19 EDT (Wed) -- To: duke!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!roy -- Subject: iapx432 -- -- Have you tried timing subroutine calls/returns? I've been told that -- because of the immense generality of the instruction, it's exceedingly -- slow. Is this accurate? Is their a simpler, cheaper form of a call -- instruction that the compiler can use? This is next on the agenda. -paul