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Subject: Re: optimization question

Author: pavel

Date: 01:43:42 10/23/00

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On October 23, 2000 at 04:30:09, Rémi Coulom wrote:

>On October 23, 2000 at 01:09:02, Landon Rabern wrote:
>
>>is it faster to cast to a char or to AND by 0xff, or to do they take the same
>>number of clock cycles?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Landon W. Rabern
>
>I would give this general advice :
>- Use int everywhere you need speed (ie, do not cast to char), even if data
>would fit in a short or a char.
>- If you do not know which is faster, time a large loop for both and you will
>know (it has dangers, but it will generally give you a good order of magnitude
>of the difference). This kind of result is probably machine/compiler dependent.
>A good compiler might generate exactly the same code for both if what you do is
>really equivalent.
>
>Remi

hi Rem
 are you still working on TCB, or there wont be anymore TCB in the future? :(

pavel



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