Re: [patch v2] epoll use a single inode ...

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> Something like :
> 
> [PATCH] : Use reciprocal divides in sprintf()

Try this on Core 2, and I suspect that you'll find that the hardware is 
actually *faster* than doing the shift/test, function call and the 
two multiplies.

> Using reciprocal divides permits to change each divide by two multiplies, less 
> expensive on current CPUS.

Are you sure?

		Linus
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