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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BK+PATCH] remove __constant_memcpy
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:10:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E9F346C.8070406@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030417225850.GA17476@werewolf.able.es>

J.A. Magallon wrote:
> On 04.17, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:07:45AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>	#define memcpy(t, f, n) \
>>	(__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \
>>	 __constant_memcpy3d((t),(f),(n)) : \
>>	 __memcpy3d((t),(f),(n)))
>>
> 
> 
> Do you know if this is more efficient ? :
> 
> __builtin_choose_expr(__builtin_constant_p(n), ... , ....)
> 
> Perhaps ?: reaches runtime, and __builtin doesn't.


No.  The existing code (quoted above) is properly evaluated at 
compile-time...

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-17 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-17  0:57 [BK+PATCH] remove __constant_memcpy Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17  1:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17  2:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-17  8:46   ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-17  9:02     ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-17  9:04       ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-17  9:11         ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-04-17 16:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-17 19:07       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 19:19       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 19:54         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-17 23:49           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 23:52             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 23:59             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-18  0:29               ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-18  9:06             ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-18 14:31             ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-18 15:07               ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-17 22:58         ` J.A. Magallon
2003-04-17 23:10           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-04-17 13:17 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-17 13:17 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-17 14:32   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 14:40     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 20:01   ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-17  2:22 Nakajima, Jun
2003-04-17 23:50 Chuck Ebbert

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