From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!richards Newsgroups: net.micro.432 Title: iAPX432 timings (2 of ??) - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.232 Posted: Wed Jul 7 20:25:53 1982 Received: Fri Jul 9 00:55:51 1982 #N:uiucdcs:21700008:000:408 uiucdcs!richards Jul 7 20:11:00 1982 Subroutine calls are indeed slow! -- This is what I got on the first test... 100,000 calls to a no-argument subroutine took 1:09.0 - the loop overhead counts for 0:06.0 of that (see previous note), so we are talking of about 603 microseconds per call??? I'll look at the call instruction to see exactly what it does, and what the return instruction (the only code generated for a null body subroutine)....