Re: [RFC] OOM aware applications

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 06:05:07 EST


On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, BALBIR SINGH wrote:

> In the code, I see
>
> points *= 2 and points /= 4 in a few places, recommend changing them to
>
> points <<= 1 and points >>= 2 to help the compiler generate better code

Does your compiler really write different code for *= 2 and <<= 1? If
so, try -O :-)

My gcc writes addl %eax,%eax for either case.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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