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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] RFC: New todo for loops
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 13:44:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051218134425.GJ2361@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051218142953.a30dcf5d.daniel.marjamaki@comhem.se>

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On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:29:53PM +0100, Daniel Marjam?ki wrote:
> I have a suggestion for the TODO.
> Making loops faster is important. Therefore in the loops we should use pointers instead of arrays.

Do you have evidence this actually produces better code?  GCC is pretty
smart, you know.  And the exammple you posted is harder to understand.
BTW, examples using gcc 2.95 don't count; the example has to be for 4.0
or later.

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-18 13:29 [KJ] RFC: New todo for loops Daniel Marjamäki
2005-12-18 13:44 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2005-12-18 14:08 ` Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
2005-12-18 14:34 ` walter harms

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