D pointers

[George Staikos]

On Saturday 01 October 2005 12:56, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> Dne so 1. října 2005 17:35 George Staikos napsal(a):
> > On Saturday 01 October 2005 11:16, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2005 17:00 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> > > > The optimising compiler will very likely elect this->d to be cached
> > > > in a register, just like this itself is.
> > >
> > > Yeah, right. Glad we have soo many registers on i386.
> >
> >   I'm glad someone else pointed this out.  I was trying to get out of
> > this conversation altogether (and I will just revert changes to my own
> > classes that I don't like), but this is a very valid point.
>
>  No, it's not a very valid point. Unless somebody can find a problem with
> my KURL benchmark (which I ran on i386), the point is as valid as about 2%
> performance loss. And BTW exactly which of your classes are performance
> critical?

   It's not a valid point that register pressure is an issue on our most 
significant platform?

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