[Simh] Simh execution speed improvement - about 45% improvement.

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 20:21:00 -0500, Davis Johnson <davis at frizzen.com> wrote:
> improvement from inlining alone. Function call overhead is relatively 
> small, after all. I did expect it to be at least measurable. I expected 

Calling a function is quite some thing! I wouldn't call it `small'
after all!  RAM accessing is one of the most used operations and as a
hot path, every single CPU instruction used to access it really counts
a lot...

MfG, JBG

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