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Subject: Re: Simple optimization question

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 08:21:54 01/09/04

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On January 09, 2004 at 10:03:37, Tom Likens wrote:

>Hello Tord,

Hi!

>I suspect that your second construct will contain at least one branch.

Yes, it seems that most people agree about that.

>You might want to verify that (either yea or nay) by compiling it with
>the -S switch.  You could then look at the actual assembly to see what the
>compiler is doing.

I will try that when I get home tonight.  I am not entirely fluent in
PowerPC assembly language (understatement of the millennium), but
hopefully I will be able to figure out what is going on in the code.

>regards,
>--tom
>
>P.S. I think it *must* have gotten very chilly somewhere if Tord Romstad is
>considering low-
>       level optimizations!! :-)

I hope my contributions in the rest of the thread have brought the
temperature down there back to normal.  :-)

Tord




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