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From: Lewis_Evans@Playstation.sony.com
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Subject: Re: Codewarrior works, GNU doesn't
Date: 16 Mar 1998 16:13:54 -0000
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>PS why did you want to cut down on the number
>of parameters to functions?
I had read in a programming book that the use of global variables was
quicker than passing in variables to a function.  What do you think?
Kevin


on PSX, globals are probably slower; not a huge amount though.
Whichever platform it is (and hence whichever of globals and stack
are quicker), it's probably not a major difference.

     Lewis