Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 11:43:29 09/03/01
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Hi On September 02, 2001 at 11:47:55, Rafael Andrist wrote: >1) a procedure is called very often. Using a local variable, you need time to >allocate/deallocate it or the adress calculation of the local variable may need >more time than the one for a global variable. It doesn't use extra time to allocate/deallocate local variables. Local variables reside on the stack and are basically an offset to a fixed address (the stack pointer) in a function. Sargon
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