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From:
Melvin Smith
Date:
July 1, 2002 13:31
Subject:
Re: Stack performance issue
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.2.20020701162454.02d8d4c8@pop.mindspring.com
At 06:59 PM 6/30/2002 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
>of the ARM procedure call standard. The solution there is to always
>keep one chunk in reserve - when you move back out of a chunk you don't
>free it. Instead you wait until you move back another chunk and then
>free the chunk after the one that has just emptied.

You might want to modify register stacks too. I currently have a band-aid
on it that just doesn't free stack chunks which works in all but the weirdest
cases.

-Melvin



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