Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGenStupidity

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03/22/11 08:25:44 (2 years ago)
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ezyang
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Up and Down, Up and Down, I will lead you Up and Down

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  • Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGenStupidity

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    7070We see `Hp - 4` being allocated to a temp, and then consequently being spilled to the stack even though `newCAF` definitely will not change `Hp`, so we could have floated the expression down. 
     71 
     72== Up and Down == 
     73 
     74A frequent pattern is the stack pointer being bumped up and then back down again, for no particular reason.  
     75 
     76{{{ 
     77         Sp = Sp + 4; 
     78         Sp = Sp - 4; 
     79         jump block_c7xh_entry (); 
     80}}} 
     81 
     82This is mentioned at the very top of `cmm-notes`.