Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:24:10 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/11] use ether_addr_equal_64bits |
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On Mon 2013-12-30 19:14:56, Julia Lawall wrote: > Ether_addr_equal_64bits is more efficient than ether_addr_equal, and can be > used when each argument is an array within a structure that contains at > least two bytes of data beyond the array.
I mean, yes, it is probably faster, and yes, most structures probably contain two more bytes, but... is the uglyness worth the speedup? I'd say this should not be done except in very time-critical places... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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