dsimcha: > So it seems like adding more and more layers of stacking causes each layer of > stacking to have progressively more overhead. This makes sense because each > layer > of stacking is likely to have a progressively worse effect on the CPU > pipeline. > The CPU can probably speculatively execute around one layer of indirect > calls, but > not a whole bunch.
See also: http://tinyurl.com/2w5jlh6 Bye, bearophile