Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:23:38 09/21/01
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On September 21, 2001 at 21:03:41, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On September 20, 2001 at 18:24:07, Antonio Dieguez wrote: > >>can you tell me? >> >>thanks. > >Should give you the same performance for straightforward situations. Processors >and compilers are optimized so that these cute little tricks are not necessary >to get good performance. Ought to, perhaps. But in real life, it does not always work out that way. But I have seen a program speed up by 1/3 by application of a chummy hack like that. In general, it's a bad idea. But if it happens to be a bottleneck, it can be a big help.
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