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Re: Minor reload cleanup/speedup
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 05:02:26PM +0100, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > Actually the code is faster just because ISDIGIT is implemented in
> > locale's way ....
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> No, it absolutely is not. That's why we use ISDIGIT from libiberty's
> safe-ctype.h instead of isdigit from the system's ctype.h.
Hmm, so then it must be faster just because switch statement expansion
does better job than sequence of jumps :)
All what I observed is large number of oprofile samples near ISDIGIT
test that went away after putting switch in place (and the amount of
samples for whole function decreased)
Honza
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