From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:07:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t
Message-ID: <84144f02050425060763f92b7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050425123236.GC26665@pasky.ji.cz>

Hi,

On 4/25/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Honestly, I don't think using the register keyword helps anything but to
> make the code less readable.

Indeed. The use of 'register' keyword blindly can actually make the
generated code _worse_ as it taking away one register from the
compiler's register allocator.

                        Pekka