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<body class='hmmessage'>Smaller code is good, reduce memory pressure, processor speed ups hardly can fight memory use..<BR>
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> From: hosking@cs.purdue.edu<BR>> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:59:40 -0500<BR>> To: hendrik@topoi.pooq.com<BR>> CC: m3devel@elegosoft.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] __declspec(dllimport)?<BR>> <BR>> My thoughts exactly. Let's not expend effort for no gain!<BR>> <BR>> On Feb 11, 2008, at 11:42 AM, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:23:47AM -0500, Tony Hosking wrote:<BR>> >> Do we know that this actually results in any real performance<BR>> >> improvement.<BR>> ><BR>> > Not clear -- hardware is getting pretty clever at doing at run-time <BR>> > the<BR>> > things that compilers used to sweat blood doing at compile time. I<BR>> > suspect that with fetch-and-branch-predictiong processors, the<BR>> > difference may<BR>> > unmeasurable.<BR>> ><BR>> > -- hendrik<BR>> <BR><BR><br /><hr />Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! <a href='http://biggestloser.msn.com/' target='_new'>Learn more.</a></body>
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