RE: Draft assembly PDD

[Sam Tregar]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Hong Zhang wrote:

> It is not just for performance, the stack size and cache
> locationality are also big issues.

Cache sizes and timings vary from machine to machine.  Maybe we should
make it configurable at compile-time?  If we do that then there's no
reason to try to guess at the right number now - we can test later and get
an answer we can trust.

[ insert routine comment about premature optimzation causing the death of
  the dinasours here ]

-sam