On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Sheen, Tony wrote:
> The profiler identified that most of the reduction was taken up with setting
> up function calls and tearing them down afterwards.
That is what I have always assumed. Nice to have it confirmed.
Mind you, one can be extreme about these things. I remember many, many
years ago, when I was on what we would now call a help desk, an academic
came in with a Fortran problem. His program was 600 lines of Fortran
with no comments, no function calls, no gotos, and no loops. He had just
written out his entire computation serially.
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