From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030233AbWGTD7O (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:59:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932567AbWGTD7O (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:59:14 -0400 Received: from gateway.insightbb.com ([74.128.0.19]:33033 "EHLO asav08.manage.insightbb.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932566AbWGTD7N (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:59:13 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aa4HAE6bvkSBTw From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Shorty Porty Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:59:10 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ricknu-0@student.ltu.se References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607192359.10755.dtor@insightbb.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 19 July 2006 23:53, Shorty Porty wrote: > > > If this is the case, then wouldn't "long" be preferable to "int"? > > Meh, it's all the same. I don't think 3 wasted CPU cycles is going to worry > anyone too much. Hell, sometimes int IS long, though I might be wrong there. > It is the _kernel_. In hot codepaths even 1 cycle matters. -- Dmitry