Paul Eggert wrote: > I don't think we need to complicate the code to improve optimization > with older compilers.
Thanks for the confirmation. Two results of last are with not GCC 4.4.7 but GCC 4.8.2 after applying second patch. The test case "k" is 50% faster and "l" is also about 16% faster with GCC 4.8.2 on my platform by two changes.