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Re:Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles by umanwizard on Friday November 11, 2016 @07:55PM (#12935883)
Creating a stack frame is just updating a register and writing a couple of values to L1 cache.
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Re:Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles by jheriko on Saturday November 12, 2016 @12:57PM (#12939105)
sometimes not even that. it might just update a single register and write nothing to cache or memory... and that cost might be hidden by out-of-order execution and the parallelism of different units on the CPU, making it effectively zero-cost.
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