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Subject: Re: xor as a lazy comparison
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 12:16 -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Depends if you want to multiply by 2 or 4 :-)

I guess I just answered my own question ;-)

Lee