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Re: avr port: shifts optimization
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: avr port: shifts optimization
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 07 May 2000 21:37:34 -0700
- Cc: Denis Chertykov <denisc at overta dot ru>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005052240510.76493-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
>>>>> Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> On Fri, 5 May 2000, Denis Chertykov wrote:
>> Fri May 5 07:43:50 2000 Denis Chertykov <denisc@overta.ru>
>>
>> * config/avr/avr.c (out_shift_with_cnt): Genetare a more optimal
>> shift cycle for unknown shift count. Also generates dec + brpl.
> This is nitpicking, of course, but "more optimal" is not possible. :-)
> "optimal" is Latin and means "best" (i.e., it is already superlativ),
> so "more optimal" would mean "better than best".
I disagree. In common English usage, "more optimal" just means "closer to
optimal". People also say "more ideal" and "more perfect" (in the
U.S. Constitution, no less).
Jason