Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 18:06:34 09/05/03
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Common Misconceptions: [snip] >Globals are faster than locals >Most modern C compilers will alias local variables to your CPUs register's or >SRAM. Furthermore, if all variables in a given scope are local, then an >optimizing compiler, can forgo maintaining the variable outside the scope, and >therefore has more simplification optimization opportunities than with globals. >So, in fact, you should find the opposite tends to be true more of the time. [snip] Dave
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