RE: Trivia: Processor MHz

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
>
>-- Mainline
>PUSH BASEPTR                           Save "this" pointer
>MOVE %ADDR(CUSTOMER), BASEPTR          Set "this" pointer
>CALL .GETPHONE, +4                     Call method saving space for return 
>value

The PUSH has to know how much to push, has to handle call stack overflow and 
extension and has to return a ptr to the stack location. It winds up being a 
call in and of itself.

The CALL has to load the return address in the call stack entry.

The RETURN from the called module has to pop the stack, deal with call stack 
extension boundaries,  call the destructor mbr function of any objects in the 
called module, unwind any "throw" and "Catch" exception handlers, ...

If you want the debugger to have some brains the call stack needs to be loaded 
with an identifier of the function being called ( so the source debugger knows 
which source code to display ).

The proof would be in the results though. Get one of the 20 people in the world 
who know how to code C++ on the AS400. Write similar code and see how many 
times faster is the RPG version.

Steve Richter