[fpc-devel] Merging identical procedure proposals

[José Mejuto]

El 16/10/2021 a las 21:57, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel escribió:
> Certainly possible, and would address the whole function pointer thing, 
> although I do question the performance hit because of the extra jump, 
> especially for small procedures, as well as the fact that the function 
> overhead would still be present.  Certainly a safe start though.
> 

Hello,

I do not know if its possible, but you can add a bunch of NOPs before 
real function, 1, 4, 8... NOPs, one group for each removed call. Of 
course a multiple times removed function can have a lot of NOPs to be 
executed before the real function body starts.


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