John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:


> But I need an intel fellow to see if this change makes any difference 
> on that register deprived architecture. Mmm wonder about the ARM chip 
> too?
Since I don't use gcc for the Acorn stuff it isn't very relevant there but I guess we can probably find a corresponding hack for the ARMlinux stuff. ARM doesn't have as many registers as PPC though, so it may end up slowing things down by causing more flushing.
tim 
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