Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:39:46 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: When should we use likely() / unlikely() / get_unaligned() ? |
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Hi!
> A probability argument for get_unaligned() allows those architectures to > _unconditionally_ emit inline unaligned load/store code, while allowing > other, saner, architectures to start doing so only when the probability > means it makes sense. > > The alternative would be a get_unlikely_unaligned() which does the same
I think that this alternative is way better than introducing probabilities. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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