I just noticed this email. It sounds beneficial, but no patch was
included. Do you want to send the patch?
On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 08:58:02PM +, Rodriguez Betancourt, Esteban wrote:
> The existing implementation uses a switch with
> many conditions, that when compiled is translated
> to a no
The existing implementation uses a switch with
many conditions, that when compiled is translated
to a not optimal series of conditional jumps.
With a lookup table the generated code has less conditional jumps,
that should translate in improving the CPU ability to predict the
jumps.
Performance Co