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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make shr to divide by power of 2
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:50:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d478i0d7.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090806180930.GA3004@localdomain.by> (Sergey Senozhatsky's message of "Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:09:30 +0300")

Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Of course, compiler supposed to do something like
> 	add    $0x7,%eax
> 	shr    $0x3,%eax
> instead of div. Should we rely on this?

Yes. We should rely on this. 

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-07  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-06 18:09 [PATCH] Make shr to divide by power of 2 Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-08-07  6:50 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-08-07  7:42   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-08-08  3:09   ` Robert Hancock
2009-08-08  7:35     ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-09  9:40       ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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