From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:38:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] delta micro optimization
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602101516310.5397@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7vhd77vv9o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> That looks obviously correct but it really is micro.  Have you
> benched it?  On which architectures?  Does it help everywhere or
> register starved ones benefit more than others?

I doubt the performance difference would be measurable on i386 although 
the code is a bit smaller.

On ARM it causes a code reduction of 12.5% in count-delta.o.


Nicolas