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