You could even find that adding #ifdefs around the compatability cruft
(and there's not really that much) will confuse the optimiser enough
that you'll actually lose overall.
Don't speculate. Benchmark.
Sean
P.S. The last line goes equally for all those who imagine we have a CPU
affinity problem on SMP without doing any tests.
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