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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>,
	andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Cc: bjorn@mork.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	matt@codeblueprint.co.uk, rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/2] lib/uuid.c: Silence an unchecked return value warning
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:13:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1465319638.25087.29.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160607164302.27585.qmail@ns.sciencehorizons.net>

On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 12:43 -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
> Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > To be sure it faster we need the measurements. Sometimes it's not
> > obvious.
[]
> Speaking pedantically, you're right.  But as a practical matter, it's
> very unlikely, and what makes it truly insignificant is that it's not
> really a problem even if I'm wrong and the code *is* slower.
> 
> As you said, size is more important than speed, and I did, at your
> request, benchmark that.  I'm just trying to make the sort of changes
> that improve *both*.
> 
> If you have a realistic concern that the patches degrade speed, I can
> put in a few hours of work to put the different versions into a test
> harness and measure it accurately.
> 
> But if this is just a pro forma observation that estimates aren't
> perfectly reliable, it's not worth the effort.

Readability and correctness are probably more important than
runtime performance here.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-06-07 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1464952090.1767.34.camel@linux.intel.com>
2016-06-04  5:13 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Clean up and shrink uuid input & output George Spelvin
2016-06-04  5:14   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] lib/vsprintf.c: Simplify uuid_string() George Spelvin
2016-06-05 14:22     ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-06-05 19:57       ` George Spelvin
2016-06-04  5:14   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] lib/uuid.c: eliminate uuid_[bl]e_index arrays George Spelvin
2016-06-04  5:42     ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-04 16:29     ` Joe Perches
2016-06-04 21:57       ` George Spelvin
2016-06-05 14:19       ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-06-05 15:34         ` Joe Perches
2016-06-05 16:15           ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-06-04 13:16   ` [PATCH v2 3/2] lib/uuid.c: Silence an unchecked return value warning George Spelvin
2016-06-05 14:21     ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-06-05 19:25       ` George Spelvin
2016-06-06  8:24         ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-06-07 16:43           ` George Spelvin
2016-06-07 17:13             ` Joe Perches [this message]

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