Re: xor as a lazy comparison

From: Lee Revell
Date: Mon Jul 25 2005 - 14:36:31 EST


On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 12:16 -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > Doesn't matter. The cycles saved for old compilers is not rational to
> > > have obfuscated code.
> >
> > Where do we draw the line with this? Is x *= 2 preferable to x <<= 2 as
> > well?
>
> Depends if you want to multiply by 2 or 4 :-)

Ah, this explains why my drivers never worked...

Lee

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