23 Oct
2002
23 Oct
'02
6:54 p.m.
"Andrew C. Greenberg" werdna@mucow.com is claimed by the authorities to have written:
Can anyone account for this remarkable increase in speed?
Yup. Better send/return performance due to having a linearized stack. No copying of arguments. Eliot showed how dramatic the effect of this can be in BrouHaHa way back in 87. PS & HPS do even better.
Personally I feel there are some more improvements needing to be completed before adopting this new code but it is very promising. Anthony has done a very good job and we owe him a big round of beer (or other appropriate drug of choice).
tim
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Tim Rowledge, tim@sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. - Hamming