From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Puneet Vyas <vyas.puneet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: xor as a lazy comparison
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:24:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E54A64.7010107@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122318659.1472.14.camel@mindpipe>
Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>>Doesn't matter. The cycles saved for old compilers is not rational to
>>have obfuscated code.
>
>
> Where do we draw the line with this? Is x *= 2 preferable to x <<= 2 as
> well?
In addition to the obvious error, let's not use x += x as well. If you
want to multiple by two, do it.
Wasn't there a CPU where multiple was faster than add? Doesn't matter,
let the compiler make the optimizations so you don't have to.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-25 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-24 16:40 xor as a lazy comparison Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-24 20:07 ` Grant Coady
2005-07-24 21:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-24 22:15 ` Puneet Vyas
2005-07-25 8:57 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-07-25 17:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-07-25 19:10 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-25 19:16 ` Philippe Troin
2005-07-25 19:18 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-26 6:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-26 8:30 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-07-25 19:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-07-25 19:27 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-25 19:23 ` Paulo Marques
2005-07-25 19:25 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-25 20:24 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-07-25 18:00 ` [PATCH] make signal.c more readable (was: Re: xor as a lazy comparison) Steven Rostedt
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2005-07-27 18:24 xor as a lazy comparison Clayton Weaver
2005-07-27 19:58 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-07-28 0:04 ` Grant Coady
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