Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:53:37 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: system call handling |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote: > If you designed it with just one call-gate, with one entry point, > you would have exactly what we have now except you would execute > a `call CALL_GATE` instead of `int 0x80`. This turns out to be > 6 of one and 1/2 dozen of another when it comes to performance.
The final decider is that `int 0x80' is only two bytes long.
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