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I completely agree. It also seems the list of programs that were analysed is not quite as diverse as one might wish. It'd be great to see what some other categories of software might use. For instance, I could see OpenOffice to be an interesting application to look at.

> There are college students now who were toddlers when this compiler came out.

Sucks for them that Visual Studio peaked when they were still in diapers.

Yeah. For instance, in IA64 calling conventions the first several function arguments are passed in registers (taking advantage of the greater number of registers than in IA32) so the number of PUSH instructions should be reduced quite a bit.