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Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: 
> > Doesn't matter. The cycles saved for old compilers is not rational to
> > have obfuscated code.
> 
> Where do we draw the line with this?  Is x *= 2 preferable to x <<= 2 as
> well?

Depends if you want to multiply by 2 or 4 :-)

Phil.