Re: Denial of denial of service

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It was thus said that the Great Tony Finch once stated:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Sean Conner wrote:
> > It was thus said that the Great Yossi Kreinin once stated:
> > >
> > > Can you name a platform where no extra instructions in the normal flow
> > > path are generated when exceptions are enabled?
> >
> > VMS on the VAX architecture, and there, it's only one instruction
> > overhead.
> 
> Er, so that's a "no" then.

  But it's half of the other architectures listed.  And it only affects
those routines that actually catch exceptions.

  -spc (In fact, I'm having a difficult time thinking it could be zero
	instructions ... )

• Tony Finch 20:03 on 29 Jan 2007
  • Sean Conner 20:34 on 29 Jan 2007
• David Cantrell 21:02 on 29 Jan 2007
  • Sean Conner 21:20 on 29 Jan 2007
  • Peter da Silva 03:52 on 30 Jan 2007
    • A. Pagaltzis 08:45 on 30 Jan 2007

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