[Info-vax] HP Users Hope Whitman Can Persuade Oracle to Change Itanium Decision

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In article <Rlb9Litw5GQv at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <00AB6223.3905E802 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>> 
>> OK.  I just SEARCHed/STATISITCS SYS for EVAX_.
>> 
>> Files searched:               470       Buffered I/O count:     19872
>> Records searched:         2303166       Direct I/O count:        2134
>> Characters searched:    111805774       Page faults:               28
>> Records matched:            17855       Elapsed CPU time:  0 00:00:20.25
>> Lines printed:              18459       Elapsed time:      0 00:00:31.75
>
>   Thanks, that's the kind of thing I wanted to know.  But the OP was
>   worried about R17 and higher number registers, I wonder how many
>   references there are, and how many are argument registers.
>
>   I suspect R17 et. al. are easier to deal with than some of the EVAX_
>   macros.  In many cases R22 - R30 can simply be emulated in RAM.

Memory is slow.

 
>> I'd love to give you a percentage of lines of code modified but that would
>> require me to devise some method to elide the machine listing portion from
>> the source portion in the listing files.  Anyway, in just SYS, there are
>> close to 18K EVAX_ references according to my search.
>
>   IIRC, there was a tool in the old SIG tapes to do that.  Probably
>   still hanging around in the archives.  But 18K EVAX_ macros is a
>   sufficient number.

Yeah, I can probably run the SYS listings through that tool but that's
more effort than I wanted to do to answer your question.  I can, when
I am back home, see about counting the actual excess of R16 registers 
used.
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