Back in the late 80s, the Mac MPW C compiler would create a stack frame every time you used a brace bracket. As a 68k coder (from Amiga)I often looked at the c

Back in the late 80s, the Mac MPW C compiler would create a stack frame every time you used a brace bracket. As a 68k coder (from Amiga)I often looked at the code generated and re-write the pinch points in assembler. A Boyer-Moore text searching algorithm being one of them. The C code was nicked from Dr Dobbs.