On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:49:08 -0400, John Eells  wrote:

>Miklos Szigetvari wrote:
>>
>> Just got some REXX IRXINIT dumps, and seems to me the code is not very
>> modern.
>
>>  But "backwater" code that lives far away from any
>frequently-traveled mainstream code path is an unlikely optimization target.
>
I'e hardly call IRXINIT "backwater".  OTOH, it's not likely to be
heavily traveled (thousands of executions rather than billions).
And it has the base registers it needs for whatever it does.

If it ain't broke, why fix it?

-- gil

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