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From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!utcsri!geac!torsqnt!uuno rth!eyepoint!alvin@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Alvin Starr)
Subject: Re: Using Global Variables
Date: 24 Sep 92 06:51:36 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1992Sep24.065136.4297@eyepoint.com> (raw)

crispen@efftoo.boeing.com (crispen) writes:

>Which is why I wonder about designs that use common memory "for speed".
>Did these designs begin as data-flow-controlled designs, and the
>common memory was retrofitted when the speed *actually* was too slow?

 Is it possible that you are confusing static variables with variables 
 that are keep on a stack or display. And before someone jumpes on me
 about how memory inefficient that allocating variables staticaly is, 
 a little program flow analsys can be used to overlay unused memory
 areas(I have done it before for a pascal compiler on a machine that
 had no stacks or index registers). The result is a program that looks
 like it has no global variables but runs like it does.

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