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Richard B. Johnson wrote: > The number of CPU clocks necessary to make the 'far' or > full-pointer call by pushing the segment register, the offset, > then issuing a 'lret' is 33 clocks on a Pentium II. > > longcall clocks = 46 > call clocks = 13 > actual full-pointer call clocks = 33 That's not a call, that's a jump. Comparing it to a call instruction is meaningless. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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