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From: Puneet Vyas <vyas.puneet@gmail.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xor as a lazy comparison
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:15:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E4131D.6090605@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507242342080.9022@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>>To confuse you, coders with assembly or hardware background throw in 
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>I doubt that. I'm good enough assembly to see this :)
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>>equivalent bit operations to succinctly describe their visualisation 
>>of solution space...  Perhaps the writer _wanted_ you to pause and 
>>think?  Maybe the compiler produces better code?  Try it and see.
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>It produces a simple CMP. Should not be inefficient, though.
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>Jan Engelhardt
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I just compiled two identical program , one with "!=" and other with 
"^". The assembly output is identical.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-24 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-24 16:40 xor as a lazy comparison Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-24 20:07 ` Grant Coady
2005-07-24 21:43   ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-24 22:15     ` Puneet Vyas [this message]
2005-07-25  8:57       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-07-25 17:55         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-07-25 19:10           ` Lee Revell
2005-07-25 19:16             ` Philippe Troin
2005-07-25 19:18               ` Lee Revell
2005-07-26  6:07                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-26  8:30                   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-07-25 19:24               ` Steven Rostedt
2005-07-25 19:27               ` Lee Revell
2005-07-25 19:23             ` Paulo Marques
2005-07-25 19:25               ` Lee Revell
2005-07-25 20:24             ` Bill Davidsen
2005-07-25 18:00         ` [PATCH] make signal.c more readable (was: Re: xor as a lazy comparison) Steven Rostedt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-27 18:24 xor as a lazy comparison Clayton Weaver
2005-07-27 19:58 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-07-28  0:04   ` Grant Coady

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