Fast procedure calls

  • Authors:
  • Butler W. Lampson

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd., Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • ASPLOS I Proceedings of the first international symposium on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

A mechanism for control transfers should handle a variety of applications (e.g., procedure calls and returns, coroutine transfers, exceptions, process switches) in a uniform way. It should also allow an implementation in which the common cases of procedure call and return are extremely fast, preferably as fast as unconditional jumps in the normal case. This paper describes such a mechanism and methods for its efficient implementation.