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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Cc: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:07:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f02050425060763f92b7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050425123236.GC26665@pasky.ji.cz>

Hi,

On 4/25/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Honestly, I don't think using the register keyword helps anything but to
> make the code less readable.

Indeed. The use of 'register' keyword blindly can actually make the
generated code _worse_ as it taking away one register from the
compiler's register allocator.

                        Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-25 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-25 11:18 [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 11:39 ` Rene Rebe
2005-04-25 12:56   ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 13:01     ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 18:06   ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-25 12:32 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-25 13:07   ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2005-04-25 14:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-25 16:59   ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 17:12     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-04-25 17:13       ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-04-25 17:18         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-04-25 18:23           ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 17:22     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-04-25 17:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-25 18:15       ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 18:50         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-25 20:50           ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-25 18:55         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-04-25 19:43           ` the REGISTER thread Brian O'Mahoney
2005-04-25 17:38     ` [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t Dmitry Torokhov
2005-04-25 17:51 ` Horst von Brand
     [not found] <3X9X6-5JP-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-25 17:36 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
     [not found] ` <3Xdel-8u2-43@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <3XfpD-21C-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-26 18:18     ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>

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