Security question?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Nov 5 05:51:20 PST 2004


On Iau, 2004-11-04 at 16:41, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> Function calls are not cheap.

That depends a lot on your platform and compile options. Even x86 calls
are often pretty cheap with regparm enabled. In addition the vendors
spent a lot of time optimising the CPU's for this so there are hardware
predicted call/return stacks for example.





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