Re: Sched.c ??

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
20 May 1999 11:00:37 +0200


Mofeed Shahin <shahin@labf.org> writes:

|> At line 810 of sched.c in 2.3.3 there is the following line :
|>
|> prev->avg_slice = (this_slice*1 + prev->avg_slice*1)/2;
|>
|> My question is, why multiply by 1 ?
|> ie what is the difference between the following two :
|>
|> prev->avg_slice = (this_slice*1 + prev->avg_slice*1)/2;
|> prev->avg_slice = (this_slice + prev->avg_slice)/2;

The second one is four characters shorter.

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