Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: As I said I don't think it's due to register allocation, but simply avoiding register write-to-read dependencies by using separate variables for the loop count and the pointer. I'm gonna try under Windows (in a virtual machine, but it shouldn't make much difference since the workload is CPU-bound).
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