On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 16:22 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21 2015, Rasmus Villemoes <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote: > > > [...] decimal conversion [...] it does indeed seem like there is > > something to be gained, especially on 64 bits. > > > > $ ./test64 > > Distribution Function Cycles/conv Conv/1 sec > > uniform([10, 2^64-1]) linux_put_dec 127.72 23047567 > > uniform([10, 2^64-1]) rv_put_dec 60.73 45932786 > > +/- -52.45% +99.30% > [...] > > 3 + neg_binom(0.50) linux_put_dec 16.85 159560933 > > 3 + neg_binom(0.50) rv_put_dec 12.59 204607570 > > +/- -25.31% +28.23% > > I'm assuming the underwhelming response means NAK.
Dunno why you assume that, sometimes it just takes awhile for people to look at non-critical, infrequent optimization changes like this. Seems sensible enough to me though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/