Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:25:46 +0100 | From | antirez <> | Subject | Re: * 4 converted to << 2 for networking code |
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:11:46PM +0100, Jakob ?stergaard wrote: > On most processors <<2 is slower than *4. It's outright stupid to > write <<2 when we mean *4 in order to optimize for one out of a > gazillion supported architectures - even more so when the compiler > for the one CPU where <<2 is faster, will actually generate a shift > instead of a multiply as a part of the standard optimization.
Hug, ok, so all the << 2 already in should be changed in *4. My point is that it is better to use only << 2 or *4, selecting the better form.
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