On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:03:31AM -1000, Juli Mallett wrote: > Is there a specific expensive instruction you're trying to avoid? > For such thoroughyl bit-aligned range checks, you shouldn't even get a branch > for the former case. Is there a platform other than i386 I should look at > where > the previous expression is more clearly pessimized? Or a different compiler > than GCC?
Besides optimizing the case when no optimization used in compiler for some reason, the next reason is to keep ctype in its style, i.e. ressemble isascii() there. -- http://ache.pp.ru/ _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
