Re: [PATCH] lib/int_sqrt.c: Optimize square root function

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Feb 05 2015 - 13:33:34 EST


On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hmm. I did that too [..]

Side note: one difference in our results (apart from possibly just CPU
uarch details) is that my loop goes to 100M to make it easier to just
time it. Which means that my load essentially had about three more
iterations over nonzero data.

Linus
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