I am not sure about that. With jump table, we just added one jump for
each function. If the libs are compiled with -O -fomit-frame-pointer,
I don't think you will notice a thing.

-- 
H.J.
Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.
In article <1992Aug12.182534.12667@unislc.uucp>, erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
|> william E Davidsen (davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM) wrote:
|> 
|> : I know Linus got some new info about libraries from my question in
|> : comp.arch, it may be possible to get the portability of a jump table
|> : without the performance drawbacks. Of course everyone else may be
|> : running a 486-50 and not notice the performance hit.
|> 
|> Yeah, right ... can you say 386SX/16? :(
|> -- 
|> Ed Carp, N7EKG     erc@apple.com                801/538-0177
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