Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 17:28:11 08/19/03
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It all depends on what hardware architecture you are running on. Saving and restoring state are memory operations on a much larger scale than make/unmake. And CPUs run much faster than memory in most cases. If the CPU execution stalls because of memory accesses it might cost you dearly. Therefore it is usually much faster to do computations than memory reads. The extreme example: it might be faster to read compressed data from a HD and decompress it than reading the same uncompressed data from HD. MvH Dan Andersson
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