The Return of the Frame Pointers
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." 2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth.
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