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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
Cc: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: crc32() optimization
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 20:25:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021110192544.0A34D10162@denx.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:43:21 PST." <20021110184321.GB16087@buici.com>

In message <20021110184321.GB16087@buici.com> you wrote:
> As it should.  I wonder if you'd do better changing the loop slightly.
> 
> Check for len == 0 and do a short-circuit return.  Then do this
> 
>   for (++len; len & 0x7; len >>= 3) {
>      ONCE(); // repeat eight times
>      ...
>      len >>= 3;
>   }
>   while (--len > 0)
>      ONCE();
> 
> This is the implementation I've written for another project which

Seems broken to me, since you "len >>= 3" twice.

Also, Duff's Device comes to mind.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-10 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <F122OgRGkQ6mBySsxVY00000854@hotmail.com>
     [not found] ` <24987.1036797874@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>
2002-11-10 15:28   ` crc32() optimization Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-10 18:43     ` Marc Singer
2002-11-10 19:25       ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2002-11-10 20:05         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-10 21:00           ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-11-10 21:22             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-10 22:35               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-10 22:41                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-11-10 23:00                   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-10 23:56                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-11  1:31             ` Marc Singer
2002-11-11  1:37               ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-11-11  4:42                 ` Marc Singer
2002-11-25 15:55                   ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-11-25 16:12                     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-11  0:50         ` Marc Singer
2002-11-10 20:04       ` Joakim Tjernlund

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