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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce a boolean "single_bit_set" function.
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:50:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A490D00.4020908@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243516357.8310.4.camel@nathan.suse.cz>

Petr Tesarik wrote:
> 
> Ok, then my only concern is that the hweight* functions return the exact
> weight, which might be much less efficient if all we need is to know
> whether it's 1.
> 
> Theoretically, gcc should be able to optimize things out, but I'm not
> all that optimistic about how well it does it.
> 

I can almost guarantee it won't in this case.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-29 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-23 17:43 [PATCH] Introduce a boolean "single_bit_set" function Robert P. J. Day
2009-04-23 19:57 ` David Daney
2009-04-23 20:11   ` Robert P. J. Day
2009-04-23 23:57   ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-24 10:40     ` Robert P. J. Day
2009-04-24 17:46       ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-25 22:09         ` Robert P. J. Day
2009-06-29 18:15         ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-29 18:50           ` Robert P. J. Day
2009-06-30  6:12             ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-30 10:18               ` Robert P. J. Day
2009-04-24 13:51     ` Robert P. J. Day
2009-05-28 12:21 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-05-28 12:27   ` Robert P. J. Day
2009-05-28 12:32   ` Robert P. J. Day
2009-05-28 13:12     ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-29 18:50       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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