From: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modernize i386 string.h
Date: 19 Jan 2004 16:10:32 +0100
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:10:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119151031.GA64150@colin2.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400BE923.1020505@pobox.com>
> ISTR this patch being shot down in the past...
I don't remember that.
>
> It seems suboptimal for people with ancient compilers, or for people on
> embedded 486's, doesn't it?
It is unlikely to make much difference for them. Kernel str* handling
is not very time critical (except memset/memcpy, but they are handled
efficiently on all compilers) The patch is mainly to make the code
more maintainable.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-19 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-18 20:09 [PATCH] Modernize i386 string.h Andi Kleen
2004-01-19 14:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-19 15:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-01-19 15:10 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-01-20 0:49 ` Richard Henderson
2004-01-20 1:39 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-20 2:04 ` Rusty Russell
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