On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Reza Roboubi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe gcc treats all function calls as fairly sacred and doesn't really
> optimize across function calls much. For example, the pcre(regex) library
> creates it's own stack frames and "simulates" the entire function recu
I believe gcc treats all function calls as fairly sacred and doesn't
really optimize across function calls much. For example, the
pcre(regex) library creates it's own stack frames and "simulates" the
entire function recursion to overcome this (and I think it has to,
otherwise big inefficiencie