RE: Make go faster

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:52:17 -0800
>From: Jon Erickson <jerickson@800.com>
>...
>CALLB is a call to a BOUND PROGRAM.
>CALLP is a call to a PROCEDURE.
>...

Not quite.  CALLB ("call bound") is a call to a
procedure. CALLP ("call with prototype") is a call
to a procedure or a program.

Brian, CALLP can be used to replace both CALL and CALLB.
Performance-wise, CALLP is no different from CALL/CALLB
(whichever it is equivalent to).  There may be some
benefit in changing from program-call to procedure-call
(call to callb), but probably not as significant as changing
the called program so it doesn't seton lr.

Callp is better than call/callb in a lot of ways, but
switching from call to callb is the easiest way to check
if making procedure calls rather than program calls will
make a significant difference.

Barbara Morris


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